Scotland, 1311.

James MacLeod was the most respected – and feared – laird in all of Scotland. He loved his men like brothers and his land with a passion. And he allowed no women to cross the threshold of his keep.

New York City, 1996. With an indifferent fiance and a stalled writing career, Elizabeth Smith found passion and adventure only in the unpublished novels she wrote. Until a Scottish hero began calling to her…

Elizabeth longed for the man of her dreams. She knew she was overworked when she began hearing his voice when she was awake! To clear her mind, she took a walk in the park, dozed off on a bench and woke up in fourteenth-century Scotland on the land of James MacLeod, an arrogant and handsome lord with a very familiar voice. Elizabeth would turn his ordered world upside-down and go where no woman had ever gone before: straight into his heart…