The Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 provided the first secular divorce. A man could divorce his wife for adultery. A woman could divorce her husband as well, but in addition to adultery, she also had to prove either incest, bigamy, cruelty, or desertion.
Kilmarin is based on a variety of castles, one located at the mouth of the River Tay.
The legend of the White Lady is taken from a castle near Perth.
Tulloch’s Folly is based on a tower on Kinnoull Hill outside of Perth, built by Lord Gray in 1829 in imitation of the castles on the Rhine. It still stands.
Architect David Smart began to renovate Balhousie Castle in 1862. The castle was, essentially, rebuilt in the baronial style, since the only original feature to survive is a rubble wall on the east side.
About the Author
KAREN RANNEY wanted to be a writer from the time she was five years old and filled her Big Chief tablet with stories. People in stories did amazing things and she was too shy to do anything amazing. Years spent in Japan, Paris, and Italy, however, not only fueled her imagination, but proved that she wasn’t that shy after all. Yet she prefers to keep her current adventures between the covers of her books. Karen lives in San Antonio, Texas, and loves to hear from her readers at www.karenranney.com.
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By Karen Ranney
SOLD TO A LAIRD
A SCOTSMAN IN LOVE
THE DEVIL WEARS TARTAN
THE SCOTTISH COMPANION
AUTUMN IN SCOTLAND
AN UNLIKELY GOVERNESS
TILL NEXT WE MEET
SO IN LOVE
TO LOVE A SCOTTISH LORD
THE IRRESISTIBLE MACRAE
WHEN THE LAIRD RETURNS
ONE MAN’S LOVE
AFTER THE KISS
MY TRUE LOVE
MY BELOVED
UPON A WICKED TIME
MY WICKED FANTASY
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
SOLD TO A LAIRD. Copyright © 2009 by Karen Ranney. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © October 2009 ISBN: 978-0-06-195990-5
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