Given the keep by the order of the King, the only reason Gavin Kerr was even going was to retrieve a portrait of the grandaughter of an old woman who died in a fatal fire in the south wing. Upon his first glance at the portrait, Gavin in bewitched by the face of a woman long dead. When the portrait is taken from his chamber night after night and put back in it's original place, a room with no floors, Gavin is determined to catch the thief. Little does he know exactly who he will catch.

Joanna McInnes has been thought long dead. No one knows her plans for revenge on the ones she is sure are responsible for the death of her family. When the new laird of the castle arrives, Joanna wants to warn him of the curse, but since she's supposed to be dead, decides to protect him as best she can. What she doesn't expect is her instant and undeniable attraction to the handsome Lowlander, nor his for her.

The suspense and romance in this book will make it very hard to put down. I read it in one day, and like I said before, I don't usually enjoy many historicals. Everything combined in this book make it one well worth reading!