To Tame a Highland Warrior

Only her love could gentle his savage soul He was born to a clan of warriors of supernatural strength, but Gavrael McIllioch abandoned his name and his Highland castle, determined to escape the dark fate of his ancestors. Hiding his identity from the relentless rival clan that hunted him, he called himself Grimm to protect the people he cared for, vowing never to acknowledge his love for ravishing Jillian St. Clair. Yet even from afar he watched over her, and when her father sent an urgent summons, "Come for Jillian," he raced to her sideinto a competition to win her hand in marriage. Why had he run from her so many years before? And why return now to see her offered as a prize in her father's manipulative game? Furious, Jillian vowed never to wed. But Grimm was the man she loved, the one who urged her to marry another. He tried to pretend indifference as she tempted him, but he could not deny the fierce desires that compelled him to abduct her from the altar. She was the only woman who could tame the beast that raged within himeven as deadly enemies plotted to destroy them both....

Karen Marie Moning graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor's degree in Society and Law. She worked as a bartender, a computer consultant, and an insurance specialist before returning to her first dream: writing. "I have always been fascinated by words, by their power to create and entertain. I can still recall the exhilaration I felt when my mother took me to a library for the first time--all those infinite worlds begging to be explored. I was an addict from that moment." <br><br>Karen Moning lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her cat, Moonshadow.