Seeking an escape from her cruel stepmother, Evelinde braves the rumors about the notorious Cullen, Laird of Donnachaidh, when she agrees to wed him, but the unlikely pair of strangers soon find themselves prisoners of a mutual passion, in a romantic saga set in the Scottish highlands. Original. They call him the Devil, the most notorious laird in all of Scotland. But Cullen, cares only about the survival of his clan, and for that, he needs a wife. He wants someone to bear him sons. Evelinde has lived under the cruel thumb of her stepmother for too long. That is the only explanation for her eagerness to wed the "Devil of the Highlands".