His Heart's Desire — Kristi Ahlers

What's a woman to do when faced with the man of her dreams -- literally?

Catrìona MacDougall has dreamed of a highland warrior for years and over the course of her life she's fallen irretrievably in love with a man she can't have. This won't do and she vows it's time to put the dream man on the shelf and find a real man who can make her melt. What should seem like a very uncomplicated plan soon proves to be anything but. Catrìona is about to get way more than she ever bargained on. Maybe dreams really can become reality.

Laird Braden Ross, once a brave warrior for his clan was to marry Catrìona MacDougall and what started as a marriage to solidify clan relations turns into a love match. But, when Braden leaves MacDougall land with his bride to be, they are ambushed by banished members of the Comyn clan under the direction of Morgana a druid priestess who has long held deep feelings for Braden and when those feelings weren't returned she vowed to make him pay. She attacks Catrìona and leaves her to die in Braden's arms after cursing him into a loveless existence until his soulmate releases him.

Braden has been trying to reach out to Catrìona but she is convinced he's nothing but a dream. He needs to prove to her they are meant to be, before she banishes him to the afterlife.