Madeline MacDonald is a sufferer of her stepbrother’s cruelty since her parents’ loss of life in a fire two years ago. Forced right into a betrothal to a guy she hates, her only way out is definitely to escape to a convent.

Laird Alexander Offer is honor bound to save Maddie after viewing the bruises on her face. What he doesn’t recognize is usually that once he holds the beaten lass in his arms, his heart won’t be the same. He vows revenge for the misuse she was pressured to withstand and yearns to make the sweet female with an iron will his, but can he help her battle the demons in her brain left behind by her abusers’ horrid treatment?