The Roman of the North (Celtic Highland Maidens #4)

Even the Roman Legion cannot keep Antonius from his heart's desire . . .
Antonius, a Roman soldier assigned to the Northern Isles, is cold, tired, and stuck in his Roman camp south of Antoine's Wall. Since the inception of the treaty between Rome and the barbaric Caledonii, the soldiers have done little more than boring and demeaning grunt work.

How is this the glory of Rome?

But his Prefect doesn’t believe the treaty is good for Rome and seeks to break it. Antonius doesn’t agree. He prides himself on honor, and breaking a good-faith treaty doesn’t sit well with the honor-bound soldier.

His inner turmoil is tested when the Prefect sends Antonius and several other soldiers on a scouting mission north of the wall. He’s caught by surprise by three Caledonii – one of whom holds a spear to his neck. Only, she’s not the one who has Antonius’s attention.

It’s the other woman with her – the curvaceous, red-haired woman with wild curls and the sensibility to question Antonius instead of kill him – who has his full attention. Muireall.

Though it has been a long while since Antonius had been with a woman, surely his stark and brutal attraction was driven from need and not something more.

Antonius is wrong, so wrong, and his desire for this enticing Caledonii urges him to help the Caledonii repel an attack by the treacherous Romans, his own people, in his quest to stay with Muireall.

But the Romans are devious and resolute, and when a surprise attack goes awry, his vow to the Caledonii and Muireall’s life are on the line.

Can Antonius walk that line into his future, or will his obligations to the Romans destroy everything he’s grown to love?