The Laird's Kidnapped Bride — Mysty McPartland

Furious and out for blood when she finds herself kidnapped of the streets of Stirling, Fern promises herself whoever was behind this fiendish act would pay with their life. When the filthy, stinking heathen who had stolen her informs her that she's his contracted bride, she refuses to believe him. Beside she's about to marry someone else, moreover she would have nothing to do with a man who would dishonour her by keeping his fat doxy in residence. There was nothing else for her to do but escape. Managing to outwit the reeking lunatic, she remains hidden for several days. Hunger and thirst drive her from her hiding place and she is outraged to find herself captured once more. The final blow to her freedom is the contract he thrusts in her face, declaring everything he said was true. Defeated but still proud she agrees to the marriage but rejects sharing a bed with him, and to keep him out of hers she refused to bath or keep clean. It was time to fetch his bride, and Cameron sent men to procure her. Once he set eyes on her and was drawn to her sweet clean scent, he knew he had to have her. Her beauty was another reason he was determined to wed her. Though he hadn't bedded his mistress for some time, he realized he had made a tactical error in letting her stay. The insults from his bride at times insulted him and amused him. He was frantic when she somehow manages to escape her locked room. Continuously, he searches for her without any success. It was impossible for her to slip away so it only meant she was hiding somewhere close. He is determined to find her and once he does they will be married at once. As the days pass, he grows more alarmed for her safety but finally just as he is growing desperate, she reappears. Once she sees proof he was telling the truth she reluctantly agrees to marry him but he is mistaken that she has given up fighting him and stirring up trouble.