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The Ruthless Laird
A Dark Romance Age Gap Medieval Highland RomanceBy Ainsley Thorne
Length11h 40m
About this audiobook
She came north as a treaty clause. She stays as a blade.
Elspeth MacRae is seventeen and burning with everything a hostage isn't supposed to have: a memory, a grudge, and the will to learn the language her captors fight in so she can hear what they plan.
Laird Bram Munro is forty-two and twice a widower, colder than the loch in February, and he does not want a bride. He wants her brother's oath and her clan's salt road. He gets a wife who eats from her own plate, sleeps with a dirk beneath her pillow, and refuses to be afraid of him.
When her brother breaks the oath and raids Munro cattle, Bram rides to war, and Elspeth rides with him — masked, unrecognized, with nothing left to lose but the man she hasn't yet admitted she loves.
Her brother falls. She doesn't forgive it. She buries him, and then she takes Bram's hand anyway.
*A dark, age-gap Highland romance for readers who like their happily-ever-afters paid for in blood.*
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length11 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Note to Readers
10Eight
2Prologue
11Nine
3One
12Ten
4Two
13Eleven
5Three
14Twelve
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6Four
15Thirteen
7Five
16Fourteen
8Six
17Epilogue
9Seven
18About the author
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