skin and bones trained get along

“This family was also yours the minute John married Fran,” Colin replies quietly. “And it would still be yours even if you weren't marrying her.”

“Marry?”

“Well, I sure hope you will make a decent woman out of my baby sister someday!”

Michaela never saw herself getting married, but ever since she's been with Fran she caught herself thinking about it constantly - them having a courthouse wedding or a ceremony at the back garden of Killmartin Castle in June, when the purple heathers are in their full bloom. Those ideas consumed Michaela so much that on a whim she bought an engagement ring. But nosy Colin didn't need to know that.

Michaela presents as a devilish charmer quick-witted, fast-talking, always with a joke. But beneath that exterior is a perceptive, kind, loyal soul. She'll very rarely let you in that deep though, because Michaela knows she doesn't fit into what's expected of young ladies and is afraid of being scrutinized too closely. Crack her exterior even deeper and you'll find a well-concealed sadness about the fact that she hasn't been able to find the right romantic partner with whom to share her loyalty and love.

— Cast call for Michaela Stirling.

"I have spent so long trying to feel less, trying to be the kind of man society expects me to be. And for a moment, I thought I had succeeded. But these past few weeks have been full of confounding feelings. Feelings like a total inability to stop thinking about you. About that kiss. Feelings like dreaming of you when I'm asleep, and in fact, preferring sleep because that is where I might find you. A feeling that is like torture, but one which I cannot, will not, do not want to give up."