The Highlander's Rescued Bride - Brides of the Highlands, #5 - E-book - ePub

Anice Gordon has been a sore trial to her parents from the day she was born. Headstrong, impulsive and forever in trouble, she is a lass who seemed to attract disaster. Robert Ogilvy, her brother Donal's best friend, grew up having to rescue Anice from one mishap after another. He is fond of his friend's wee sister, and often enough amused by her pranks-until her twelfth summer, when his father and Anice's decide it would benefit the clan if the two of them were to be betrothed.
They announce it at her brother Donal's birthday celebrations, expecting Robert to be pleased. Aghast, Robert finds it hard to hide his dismay. Wee Anice? This tearaway lass with a bawdy sense of humor and stick-straight tangled straw hair? How could he think about her as a wife and Lady of the Keep? Hellfire, she is more like a sister to him!Nevertheless, three years later, on Anice's fifteenth birthday, they are wed.
Robert, at his wits' end with his impulsive wife, secretly enlists the help of the servants to keep her out of trouble. But what happens when Anice, willful and proud and now a woman grown, finds out about his plan? The cold Scottish hills near melt with the fury of her anger!