Time travel, witchcraft, and a growly Highlander. The ultimate Hot Scots prequel is here.

I need to shake up my life, but I never imagined how much of a jolt I'd get. My husband destroyed my life, then died and left me with nothing. What can I do now? Might as well blow the last of my savings on the trip I've dreamed of taking all my life. I fly to Scotland, to the Highlands. But on my third night there, the unimaginable happens.

Magic happens.

And suddenly, I find myself in the past and in the arms of a gruff and growly medieval Scot. His three strange aunts insist their witchy powers brought me here. And they think I can save their nephew, Kieran MacTaggart, from his banishment in this abandoned castle.

Yeah, they're insane.

Kieran might behave like a beast and sometimes look like one too, but something about him inspires me to learn more about the man, the clan that banished him, and this eerie castle. When he kisses me, I experience a desire so powerful that it steals my breath away. I know I should run, but Kieran won't let me go. When he discovers his archenemy, Simidh Gunn, has found out about me, Kieran vows to protect his "property"—namely, me—at any cost. Even if he must invoke black magics to do that.

Trapped in a past I don't understand, all I can do is pray for salvation.

Banished in the Highlands is a time travel prequel inspired by the bestselling Hot Scots series