Highlander’s Lesser Evil by Adamina Young

To avoid mayhem, she will take a path she never thought she would…

After overthrowing and imprisoning his cruel father, Theodore MacDougal is the new Laird of the MacDougal clan, but he is not even close to gaining the people’s trust.

The memories of his father’s brutal rule have not faded, and the fear that Theodore will be as savage as him lurks around. Desperate for a solution, Theodore agrees to marry a woman chosen by the people to proclaim his loyalty to them.
Gemma Merrimen was the fiancee of the powerful and feared Laird Fletcher MacSeaver, who abandoned her to wed another lass. She thought she had escaped his claws, but now that Fletcher is widowed, Gemma lives under the fear that he will reclaim her and agrees to do something she’d never thought she would; wed someone willingly.

Highly regarded by everyone, Gemma is chosen to marry the new mysterious Laird Theodore MacDougal, a man she does not trust, but compared to her previous wicked betrothed, the enigmatic Laird looks like the lesser of two evils…
She and Theodore are cautiously circling each other, and sparks of passion ignite, but there are inner demons that keep their hearts at bay. Gemma fears that she might have wed the wrong man, and if that is true, she has doomed not only herself but also her beloved clan.