The Thistle and the Rose (2096)

Once back at her job in Brussels, Helen told herself, she'd be able to forget the barbaric Scotsman who had stripped her entire being of dignity. And to think she had once imagined herself in love with him! To spend a lifetime with a man as impossible as Damon Murray, a woman would need to be insensitive, uncaring and hard. Why, then, did she feel so miserable about leaving him?