This is a Stand-Alone Novella When Lileas MacDonald flees her wedding to hide in a remote Scottish abbey, she thinks she's escaped her unwanted marriage forever. She was wrong. After months of humiliation and wounded pride, Laird Ewan MacNeil vows to bring his runaway bride to heel once and for all. But the woman he finds isn't the meek maiden he expected. She's a brilliant inventor with a penchant for whiskey brewing. Their forced marriage was supposed to be a simple political alliance. Instead, it's becoming a battle of wits between a woman who can turn dirt into an explosive and a man who's beginning to think he's her next experiment. When enemy clans discover Lileas possesses knowledge worth killing for, suddenly her biggest problem isn't avoiding marriage, it's avoiding kidnapping. Between dodging Highland raiders and clan warfare, can a reluctant bride and her long-suffering groom find something worth fighting for? TROPES: Arranged Marriage, Runaway Bride, Enemies to Lovers, Marriage of Convenience, Forced Proximity, Alpha Hero, Genius Heroine, Opposites Attract. Mature Content. NO cheating. NO cliffhangers. HEA.