As children, Max Rossmara, the son of a viscount, and Kirsty Mercer, a tenant farmer's daughter, were unlikely yet inseparable friends. Innocent to the demands of convention, they formed a club for wishing. And each had only one wish: to be together forever. But Max's family pressured him to live in another world, and leave Kirsty behind. Now, changed from a gentle boy into a bitter man, he returns to his Scottish estate, swearing to make his childhood wish come true. And when he calls Kirsty to the castle to work as his assistant—an unprecedented position for a woman—she warily goes to his side. How familiar it feels...and how soon pleasure becomes peril when they risk everything to wish again for a world that will let them love.