If You Dare
by Kresley Cole

Can a Highlander steal his enemy's bride and make her love him?

High in the Pyrenees, a band of mercenaries led by Courtland MacCarrick wages war for General Reynaldo Pascal. When Court turns on the brutal general, Pascal orders him killed. Court narrowly escapes and exacts revenge by kidnapping Pascal's exquisite Castilian fiancée.

Noble heiress Annalía Tristán Llorente despises her towering, barbaric captor almost as much as she does Pascal. Her inexplicable attraction to the Highlander only fuels her fury. Yet nothing will stop her from returning to Pascal—for if she doesn't wed him, she signs her brother's death warrant, as well as her own.

From the moment Court discovers that Anna's prim façade masks a fiery, brave lass, his heart's ensnared and he dares to defy the curse that has shadowed his life—to walk with death or walk alone. But Pascal vows that he'll hunt the two, never stopping until he's destroyed them both. If they survive, can this hardened soldier of fortune convince the only woman he's ever loved that she's meant to be his?

Other Books by Kresley Cole

If You Desire
MacCarrick Brothers #2

No Rest for the Wicked
The Immortals After Dark

A Hunger Like No Other

Playing Easy to Get

If You Dare
The MacCarrick Brothers #1

The Price of Pleasure

The Captain of All Pleasures

Kresley Cole's Bio

Previously a competitive athlete and professional coach, Kresley now concentrates on writing romance for Pocket Books.

Since her first novel was published in 2003, Cole has sold a total of seven books and one novella in two different subgenres. Her first book, THE CAPTAIN OF ALL PLEASURES (Pocket Books, July 2003) was a 2003 Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers' Choice Award Winner and her second, THE PRICE OF PLEASURE (Pocket, July 2004), was an RT Top Pick. Cole will be following her highly acclaimed "Pleasure" historicals with a Highlander trilogy, as well as a new paranormal romance series, both with Pocket Books.

IF YOU DARE, the first book in the MacCarrick Brothers Trilogy, was released in May 2005, with IF YOU DESIRE and IF YOU DECEIVE to follow in 2006. The paranormal romances will be released between the historicals with the first, A HUNGER LIKE NO OTHER, to come in April 2006 and the second, NO REST FOR THE WICKED in October 2006.

Kresley now writes full time and is a mom to two marvelous labs and one feckless cat.