Allied with the Indian tribes who lived beside them in the wilderness, the Scottish Highland warriors forged a new breed of soldier. She attributes her love of historical romance with the years she spent visiting ruins and castles in Europe.Charged with a crime they didn't commit, the MacKinnon brothers faced a death sentence until they agreed to serve the British Crown in the colonies and take up arms against the French. She loves history, having studied archaeology in college, and has traveled extensively, living for almost three years in Denmark, which feels like home to her. She is a two-time RITA finalist ( Surrender, Defiant) and a three-time Daphne du Maurier finalist (I-Team series). A single mother with two grown sons and two cats, she writes historical romance and contemporary romantic suspense within view of Colorado’s beautiful Rocky Mountains. In 2011, she was honored by the Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists with their Keeper of the Flame Lifetime Achievement Award for her work.

Along the way, she and her team won numerous state and national honors, including the First Amendment Award and the National Journalism Award for Public Service. USA Today best-selling author Pamela Clare began her writing career as a columnist and investigative reporter and eventually became the first woman editor-in-chief of two different newspapers. As desire transforms into love, Connor will have to defy an empire to keep Sarah at his side. For if her uncle knew all that Connor had done to save her, he would surely kill him.īut the flames of passion, once kindled, are difficult to deny. When they reach civilization, however, it is she who must protect him. Torn by tragedy from her sheltered life in London, Lady Sarah is unprepared for the harshness of the frontier-or for the attraction she feels toward Connor as he guides her first through the consummation of their forced union and then through the dangers of the wilderness. But the only way to free Sarah is for Connor to defeat the Shawnee warrior who kidnapped her-and claim her himself. Instead, he finds a brave and beautiful lass in desperate peril.

Ordered to rescue Wentworth's niece after the Shawnee take her captive, he expects Lady Sarah Woodville to be every bit as arrogant and contemptible as her uncle. Major Connor MacKinnon despises his commander, Lord William Wentworth, beyond all other men.

Charged with a crime they didn't commit, the MacKinnon brothers faced a death sentence until they agreed to serve the British Crown in the colonies and take up arms against the French.

Defiant by Pamela Clare