To Covet a Highland Criminal by Lori Ann Bailey

Growing up as an orphan on the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland, Bran MacKay had a rough life. To save his adopted sister from paying for one of his past mistakes, he needs a large sum of money. Upon overhearing a plot to rob a business, he beats the thieves to the establishment. When he learns his actions could cost an innocent lass her business, he endeavors to make amends by secretly helping her earn back what he took. As he grows to care for her, he discovers a devious plot afoot to undermine her success, and it becomes harder for him to admit the truth of his part in her possible downfall.

Grace Andersen clings to her lost parents’ memory by throwing her heart into running the family business. After her store is robbed and her absent brother returns to demand the missing profits, she sees one man as her savior, Bran MacKay. She knows he’s a member of a notorious criminal gang, but his generosity moves her, and she begins to hope there can be more between them than a working relationship. When her brother makes an unthinkable demand, she believes she can survive because she’s found the one man she can trust.

Will she be able to forgive him when she discovers he took everything from her?