The Price of Freedom (The Scottish Crown Series, Book 2)

Author Carol Umberger combines her love of history, romance, and God in a quartet of powerful stories set in 14th–century Scotland during the reign of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's great hero king. They have been cast together by forces beyond their control. Forces that neither are sure they can trust. He's a man with a mission, sworn to fight for his king and the freedom of his beloved Scotland. She's a noblewoman with an estate to run, a household to protect, and a precious secret to guard at all costs. Black Bryan Mackintosh finds his faith tested as he fights with other Scots to win freedom from England in 1314 and vows not to take a wife until the battle is won, but when he meets Countess Kathryn de Lindsay, he is drawn to the young woman and considers abandoning his cause to help her