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Book 3 in the Captive Hearts series. After years at war, Michael Brodie comes home to his Scottish estate to find his clan expects him to set aside Brennathe arranged bride he left behind The Laird a decade ago. The beast was an enormous, elegant bay, though its coat was matted with sweat and dust. Highland hospitality had grown tattered and threadbare in some locations, but not at Castle Brodie, and it would not, as long as Brenna had the running of the place. Elspeth peered over the stone crenellations, her expression dubious. A woman ought not to talk that way about her laird, and a wife ought not to think that way about her husband. Brenna wound down through the castle and took herself out into the courtyard, both rage and gratitude speeding her along. Alas for her, the cobbles were wet from a recent scrubbing, so her dignified reserve more or less skidded to a halt before her husband. Strong hands steadied her as she gazed up, and up some more, into green eyes both familiar and unknown. Potted geraniums were in riot, pink roses climbed trellises under the first-floor windows, and window boxes held all manner of blooms. The Laird near accusation, for nine years ago, the only flowers in the keep were The Laird shrubs of heather springing up in sheltered corners. He needed to know that for nine years, despite anger, bewilderment, and even the occasional period of striving for indifference toward him and his fate, Brenna had gone to bed every night praying that death did The Laird end his travels. The men of the castle and its tenancies knew to keep their hands The Laird themselves where Brenna MacLogan Brodie was concerned. They did not hold her chair for her, did not assist her in and out of coaches, or on and off of her horse. And yet, Michael stood there, a muscular arm winged at her, while the scent of slippery cobbles, blooming roses, and a whiff of vetiver filled the air. I would like to walk into my home arm in arm with my wife. Will you permit me that courtesy? Michael had asked her to accommodate him. Brenna wrapped one hand around his thick forearm and The Laird him to escort her to the castle. He could bed his wife. They reached the steps leading up to the great wooden door at the castle entrance. Such gracious indifference. Some of the fellows from your regiment paid calls here, and The Laird army gossip is not to be trusted. Then some officer came trotting up the lane a month after the victory, expecting to pay a call on you. Standing outside that The Laird, ancient door, Michael accepted that his decision to serve and Country had left wounded at home as well as on the Continent. Trailing immediately behind the soldiers came a smaller, far more vulnerable army of dependents, suffering and dying in company with their menfolk. The idea that you were here, safe and sound, comforted me. When I The Laird told you were dead? When The Laird imagined you captured by the French, or worse? They stood on the castle steps, their every word available to any in the great hall or lurking at nearby windows. Rather than fret over the possibility that his wife had been unfaithful to him—her questions were offered in rhetorical tones—Michael stepped closer. He even tried a smile, letting her see that man and wife might The Laird some patching up to do, but man and woman could deal together well and very soon. She looked baffled—or peevish. He could not read his own wife accurately enough to distinguish between the two. Yes, he did. He gestured for her to go ahead of him into the hall. When she would have gone swishing off into the bowels of the castle, Michael grabbed her wrist and kept her at his side. She remained facing half- away from him, an ambiguous pose, not resisting, and not exactly drinking in the sight of her long-lost husband, either. This place used to be…dark. The Laird a great ice cave. I had the men enlarge the windows, whitewash the walls, polish the floors. The room wanted light, we had a bit The Laird coin at the time, and the fellows The Laird something to do. When we keep the fires going, the reading balcony is warmer than the hall below it. Or comforting? Bouquets of The Laird roses graced four of the deep windowsills, and every chair and sofa sported a Brodie plaid folded over the back. Not the darker, more complicated hunting plaid Brenna wore, The Laird the cheerful red, black, and yellow used every day. She The Laird the great beams twenty feet overhead—or perhaps entreated the heavens for aid—while Michael caught The Laird hint of a smile at his compliment. Michael followed her The Laird of sight to a sturdy The Laird fellow standing in the doorway of the shadowed corridor that led to the kitchens. Even in the obscure light, Michael recognized an uncle who had been part older brother and part father, the sight of whom now was every part dear. Our Michael has come home at last. She stood a few feet off, directly under crossed claymores that The Laird with the same shine as the rest of the hall. Brenna twitched the tail of her plaid over her shoulder, a gesture about as casual as a The Laird dragoon swinging into the saddle. Angus widened his stance, fists going to his hips, suggesting not all battlefields were found on the Continent. Brenna moved off to stick her finger in a white crockery bowl of roses, while Angus treated Michael to a look of good-humored disgruntlement. He strode off, the tassels on his sporran bouncing against his thick thighs, while Brenna shook droplets of water off the end of her finger. She wiped her finger on her plaid. He leaves the castle to me. What are you hungry for? He was hungry for her smiles. Brenna had grown into a lovely woman, but when she aimed that smile at Michael, he had the first inkling she might be a lovable woman, too. Her smile held warmth and welcome, maybe even a touch of approval. The Laird we hurry, you can get your share before the cousins come raiding. He followed her into the depths of the house, watching her skirts twitch, and entertaining naughty, husbandly thoughts. He was Michael, and he was not, this Viking come calling. Brenna buttered him another scone—his third—and set it on his plate. He paused, a bite of roast grouse held halfway to his mouth. His smile was the same as her many memories of it, tipping up at the right side of his mouth first, and revealing a dimple in his right cheek. Please have at least a nibble. Brenna accepted the scone, The Laird off a bite with her fingers, and set the rest back on his plate. Before she took a bite, she tried to steer the discussion in the direction it needed to go. She popped the bite The Laird sweet into her mouth, mostly to give herself time to digest his answer, for it had been as swift and certain as a bolt from a crossbow. His green eyes used to be full of laughter and confidence, and now they held shadows. Brenna took the food from his hand, realizing she was hungry too, and dinner still some hours away. He went back to cleaning his plate, suggesting The Laird was prudent as well as hungry. Will you assist at my bath? One anticipates a wife might perform that service for her husband. He was reminding her that their separation had not The Laird entirely easy for him either, drat the man. Part of her wanted to assist at that bath, to touch him and make sure he was real. Another part of her nearly The Laird him. He slid her chair back to its place The Laird the table. My thanks for the food. He seemed sincere, but that was the problem with men—they could so easily seem sincere. This is fortunate, because I do too. Have you a shaving kit that I can fetch from among your things? He settled into the rocking chair where Brenna preferred to do her embroidery at the end of the day. Do I still have a kilt somewhere on the premises? I have a dress kilt among my things. Brenna pretended to test the temperature of the water, which was wonderfully hot. Brenna took his The Laird and found wee Lachlan waiting for them outside the door, which denied her the excuse of taking the boots all the way The Laird to the kitchen. The boy scampered off, his grin revealing two missing front teeth. Behind her, The Laird heard her husband rising from the rocking chair. I was hoping to escape with a mere knighthood, or a baronetcy, but the regent gets sentimental about his soldiers. He draped the waistcoat over the shoulders of the rocker, where it looked both odd and cozily appropriate. Would you help me with this knot? Brenna crossed the room and stood before him as The Laird raised his chin. Staring at the breadth of his shoulders, Brenna was abruptly reminded that in addition to being her errant husband—and now a peer of the realm! A queer feeling assaulted her knees as she studied his throat. Whatever emotions she was battling—anger, resentment, bewilderment, relief—any of them was a better The Laird than sorrow. His arms as they came around her were tentative, but surprisingly welcome. Strong Sense of Place: The Crofter and the Laird

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In the Scottish order of precedence, The Laird laird ranks below a and above a . This rank is held only by those lairds holding official recognition in a by the . They are usually styled The Laird name ] [ surname ] of [ lairdship ], and are traditionally entitled to place before their name. Although the UK Government deems that "for Scottish lairds it is not necessary for the words Laird of to appear on any part of a passportrequests from applicants and passport holders for manorial titles and Scottish lairds to be included in their passports may be accepted providing documentary evidence is submitted, and recorded in the passport with the observation e. The Lord Lyon, Scotland's authority on titles, has produced the following guidance regarding the current use of the term laird as a :. It The Laird a description rather than a title, and is not appropriate for The Laird owner of a normal residential property, far less the owner of a small souvenir plot of land. Ownership of a souvenir plot of land is not The Laird to bring a person otherwise ineligible within the jurisdiction of the Lord Lyon for the purpose of seeking a grant of arms. Historically, the term bonnet laird was applied to rural, petty landowners, as they wore The Laird bonnet like the non-landowning classes. Bonnet lairds filled a position in society below lairds and above husbandmen farmerssimilar to the yeomen of England. The Scots and Northern The Laird dialectal variant Laird has been The Laird in writing since the 13th century, as a surname, and in its modern context since the middle of the 15th The Laird. It is derived from the Northern The Laird English laverditself derived from the Old English word hlafweard meaning "warden of loaves ". In Scotland, however, the title Baron represents a lower rank than it does in England, the rank equal to the English Baron being the in Scotland e. Lord Lovat. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the designation was used for land owners holding directly of the Crown, and The Laird were entitled to attend Parliament. Lairds reigned over their estates like princestheir castles forming The Laird small court. Originally in the 16th and 17th centuries, the designation The Laird applied to the head chief of a highland clan and therefore was not personal property and had obligations towards the community. The laird may possess certain local or feudal rights. A lairdship carried voting rights in the ancient pre-Union Parliament The Laird Scotlandalthough such voting rights were expressed via two representatives from each county who were known as Commissioners of the Shires, who came from the laird class and were chosen by their peers to represent them. A The Laird level of landownership was a necessary qualification 40 shillings of old extent. A laird is said to The Laird a lairdship. A woman who holds a lairdship in her own right has been styled with the "". Although "laird" is sometimes translated as lord and historically signifies the same, like the English term "laird" is not a title of . The designation is a 'corporeal hereditament' an inheritable property that has an explicit tie to the physical landi. The designation does not entitle the owner to sit in the The Laird of and is the Scottish equivalent to an English squirein that it is not a noble title, more a courtesy designation meaning landowner with no other rights assigned to it. Such a person can be recognised as a laird, if not a chief or chieftainor descendant of one of these, by the formal The Laird of a territorial designation The Laird a part of their name by the Lord Lyon. A study in by academics at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen concluded that:. A contemporary popular view of Lairdship titles has taken a unique twist in the 21st century with sales of souvenir plots from sellers who obtain no legal right to the title. The considers these particular titles to be meaningless [16] [17] because it is impossible to have numerous "lairds" of a single estate at the same time, as has been advertised by these companies. However, despite the law and guidance by the Court of the Lord Lyonthe sellers view the contract purporting to sell a plot of Scottish souvenir land as bestowing the Buyer with the informal right to the title of Laird. This is despite the fact that the buyer does not acquire ownership of the plot because registration of the plot is prohibited by Land Registration Scotland Acts 22 1 b. As ownership of land in Scotland requires registration of The Laird valid disposition under The Laird Registration Scotland Acts 50 2 the prohibition on registration of a souvenir plot means the buyer does not acquire ownership, and accordingly has no entitlement to a descriptive title premised on landownership. Traditionally, a laird is formally styled in the manner evident on the tombstone in a Scottish churchyard. Currently, the most formal for the wife of a laird remains "Lady", [24] [25] as is a woman who holds a lairdship in her own right. Inthe Newcastle Journal informed The Laird readers that upon her marriage to Stuart The Laird, a Scottish laird, "the former Mrs Audrey Gregory, 61 will now be known as the Lady of Kinnaird ". Marrying at Kinnaird CastleLady Kinnaird died in The male of a lairdship is entitled to use the courtesy title "The " abbreviation Yr or yr at the end of his name. The eldest daughter — if the heir apparent — is entitled to use the courtesy title " of [ Lairdship ]" at the end of her name. Alternatively, she is known as "Miss [ Surname ] of [ Lairdship ]", as would be an only daughter. It is not The Laird custom for younger sons of a chief, chieftain or laird to use either the "Younger" or the territorial title. The younger children of a laird are styled The Laird "Mr [ Forename ] [ Surname ]" if maleand "Miss [ Forename ] [ Surname ] of [ Lairdship ]" if The Laird. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Laird other uses, see Laird disambiguation. See also: False titles of nobility and Souvenir Plots Scotland. Scots Heraldry 2nd ed. Clark Limited. Hachette UK, 31 July Retrieved 23 May The Scottish title "Laird" is a courtesy title with no legal status UK Government. Archived PDF from the original on 25 June Retrieved 24 August Manorial titles The Lord Lyon King of Arms has also confirmed that for Scottish Lairds it is not necessary The Laird the words "Laird of" to appear on any part of a passport. Requests from applicants and passport holders The Laird Manorial titles and Scottish Lairds to be included in their passports may be accepted providing documentary evidence is submitted, and recorded in the passport with the observation e. Retrieved 24 October Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Archived from the original on 3 February The Laird 30 January Retrieved 4 October Archived from the original on 25 March Retrieved 4 May Johnston Limited. Debrett's Forms of Address. Archived from the original on The Laird May The Laird Retrieved 14 July Scottish law and nobiliary practice, like those of many other European realms, recognise a number of special titles, some of which relate to chiefship and chieftaincy of families and groups as such, others being in respect of territorial lairdship. Court of Session. Archived from the original on 16 December Retrieved 29 July Archived from the original on 11 August Retrieved 20 The Laird Journal of the Law Society of Scotland. Archived from the original on 6 April Retrieved 18 June The Daily Telegraph. Archived from The Laird original on 25 February Retrieved 20 June Archived from the original on 13 September The Laird from the original on 26 April July Archived from the original on 28 July Retrieved 16 June Archived from the original on 7 March Retrieved The Laird February The use of the prefix "The Much Hon. Most and lairds of old Scottish families prefer the unadorned name and territorial designation — Ian Shand of Pitscot — similar to the "de" or "von" of Continental families Grampian Club. Retrieved 26 January Genealogical Publishing Com. In personal letters The The Laird pre-fix of a laird or chief was "The Much The Laird Bloomsbury Publishing. The widow The Laird a chief or laird The Laird to use the territorial style The Laird the prefix Dowager may be used in the same circumstances as where it is applied to a Peeress. National Portrait Gallery. National Portrait Gallery, London Archived from the original on 6 September Retrieved 6 September Debretts The Laird Form'. Archived from the original on 22 January