What would you risk to find love? Mackenzie Cooper has had it with romance. On her way home from another blind date arranged by her well-meaning sister, she is caught in a snowstorm. While maneuvering the twists and turns of the icy road, Mackenzie loses control of her car and crashes into the rocky hillside.  When a rugged Scotsman pulls her to safety, Mackenzie is sure she must be hallucinating. Through the storm’s fury, he takes her to shelter in one of the mysterious stone chambers scattered throughout Putnam County, New York. Snowbound, Mackenzie must wait out the storm with this strange, kilted man who claims to be a Highlander from eighteenth-century Scotland. By morning, she not only believes Ciarán MacRae’s story but has also lost her heart just in time for him to kiss her, promise his love—and then vanish.  Unable to forget him, Mackenzie returns again and again to the stone chamber, hoping to unlock the secret of Ciarán’s disappearance. But if she does, she will have to decide whether her fierce feelings for Ciarán are worth abandoning all that she knows to travel through time to find her gallant Scotsman.

Highland Passage













TWELVE





A THUNDER OF HORSES





At dawn, they rode the path down the mountain. Now on relatively level ground, they looked forward to half a day’s ride, but first they stopped by a burn to water the horses. Mac knelt by the water, splashed her face, and brush...

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Preface

The Nor’easter

This Moment

The Stone Chamber

Sometime in Winter

The Promise

The Dream

To the Other Side

The Crossroads

To Balnagown Castle

A Simple Plan

A Promise Fulfilled

A Thunder of Horses

The Homecoming

The Proper Order of Things

Promise and Duty

Tomorrow

The Spanish Frigates

The Rising

The Aftermath

The Next Train

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

Thank You!

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