Wedding for a Knight Book

What I have learned from this is that no matter what you do even in doing your job as serving your country somebody always gets hurt and then they may even harbour such deep hatred for you to the point of madness and revenge ~ both are reasons enough for murder. And such is the case with the beleaguered MacKinnons. The clan's island position is perfect for watching over the sea traffic specially in keeping an eye on the French. Because of their diligence and constant vigilance somebody's lucrative spying business with the French was adversely affected and the suicide of the traitor including their children have maddened the surviving spouse enough to plan for revenge against the whole MacKinnon clan. But this is just one layer of the things that fazed and faced the Laird's heir at his homecoming following a defeat from a recent skirmish and the bitter knowledge that all that he has worked for (prize money from the tourneys he has won that would have paid for the clans' lost galleys and Janet's dowry) was stolen while he was out battling for his King, his Laird and father is now talking about seeing black ships that appear and disappear through the sea mists and that he is married by proxy. This... is after all a love story.