Heiress Bride / Catherine Coulter / 303 pages / Scottish/Irish Challenge

Sinjun learns that the Scottish laird, Colin Kinross, needs to wed an heiress or he will lose his estates and people who depend on him will suffer.  She determines to become his heiress bride.  Lady Joan Elaine Winthrop Sherbrooke (Sinjun) is a spitfire and eagerly weds a man she hardly knows.  Her wedding night is a disaster (and perhaps too graphically described).  Colin's father and older brother have squandered the family fortune and Colin is accused of murdering his first wife.  Sinjun must deal with her overbearing husband, two step-children, and evil aunt, and a murderous brother-in-law.  She and her sisters succeed in capturing McPherson, the hearts of their husbands, and the interest and empathy of the reader.