Grace Under Fire

Grace Isabel MacKenna has a short to-do list for her trip east: attend the Buchanan anniversary party in Boston, then fly on to Scotland to claim an inheritance. Shooting a man was never on it. But a walk to clear her head ends with her lost, a wounded stranger collapsing into her arms, and the gunman who put him there coming for both of them. When she fires back to protect herself, her attacker goes down for good.

The police keep her for questioning, and the Buchanan family sends help to get her out: Michael Buchanan, a former Navy SEAL who now practices law. Isabel has disliked him for years and has no wish to owe him anything. Michael, however, decides she needs protecting whether she agrees or not, and he sticks close. The two of them argue constantly, and the friction between them has a charge neither can quite dismiss.

When Isabel heads to Scotland to settle her inheritance, Michael goes too. Her troubles follow as well, because someone is making threats against her, and the danger is far from over. Before Michael and Isabel can sort out what they feel for each other, they have to stay alive long enough to find out who is behind it.

Grace Under Fire is a romantic suspense novel from Julie Garwood, pairing an unwilling heroine with a stubborn protector in a story that moves between Boston and the Scottish countryside.