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This short-story (8,500 words or 25-30 pages, based on your ereader) was initially printed in the Mammoth Book of Scottish Love. Excerpts from Carnally Ever After and The Lesson Program, additionally by Jackie Barbosa, are incorporated in the end.COVER COPYDuncan Maxwell, laird of Lochmorton Fortress, gets the surprise of his life when he finds the reiver seized in a raid on his countries isn't a child, but a lady. Duncan can't countenance imprisoning a lady in his dungeon, though she flatly will not tell him her name or how she came into existence driving with a raiding party but neither may he release her without payment. Being an honored—though excessively well-supervised—guest not able to ransom her back once again to her family, he treats her.