Somewhere inside Lady Caroline, there had to lurk vestiges of her lovely mother and the quelled beast so enamored with his wife that he melted into a blob of placidity with merely a touch. Somehow, he had to find a way to burrow beneath Caroline’s hostility to pacify her enough to carry her home to Loch Muiraith. There was more at stake than marriage and the randy urges of a man more smitten than wise to a runaway wife and the key to his future.