Kissing the countess

by Susan King

Evan Mackenzie, the new Earl of Kildonan, has returned to the beautiful, remote Highland mountains of his childhood for a climbing holiday, but he has no intention of staying. Haunted by tragedy, he plans to sell the sprawling property and return to Victorian Edinburgh. But then Evan finds himself stranded high on a snowy mountaintop with the lovely Catriona MacConn, a woman with a mission of magic so secret and dangerous she will protect it at any cost--even if it means giving up the love of her dreams...