The Highlanders
About this ebook series
Lady Anice vows to flee the amorous advances of King Henry I, and return to her home in the Highlands, where she hopes to find a laird to wed, when she learns her staff has vanished. Premonitions of imminent danger warn her of foul play and she is certain she is cursed when it comes to marriage.
The king orders the Highlander Laird Malcolm MacNeill, seeking an English bride, to provide the lass safe escort and learn what has become of her staff. Escorting her home safely proves a dangerous trial in and of itself and keeping his heart out of the matter, when the king wishes her wed to one of his loyal barons instead, complicates issues further. Losing his heart to the lass means Malcolm could very well lose his head.
The king orders the Highlander Laird Malcolm MacNeill, seeking an English bride, to provide the lass safe escort and learn what has become of her staff. Escorting her home safely proves a dangerous trial in and of itself and keeping his heart out of the matter, when the king wishes her wed to one of his loyal barons instead, complicates issues further. Losing his heart to the lass means Malcolm could very well lose his head.
about to settle down, until Lady Alana Cameron is placed squarely in his
lap...and then, the trouble begins.
When Dougald finds Alana roaming the heather on the MacNeill lands,
he takes her in hand to see his laird brother James at Craigly Castle to
determine her fate. But who has sent her there and why? Her uncle,
laird of the Cameron clan, that has warred with the MacNeills for years,
has made a marriage arrangement with another clan and now that is even
at stake.
Having witnessed her father's death, and even believing he had
returned her home when all along he had been dead, Alana discovers she
has the gift, or curse, of seeing the newly departed and sometimes those
who should have long ago passed over. Her own deceased brother
continues to plague her, the rake, and now another, who is very much of
the flesh, Dougald MacNeill, has her thinking marrying a rake might just
have its benefits. Dougald's sister, who is one feisty ghost, has
offered to help Alana keep Dougald in line if he thinks of even
straying.
But who sent Alana on a fool's errand in the first place to remove
her from the Cameron's lands and set her squarely in Dougald's care, and
who really killed her father and her brother, and what has it all to do
with Alana? Will she and Dougald learn the truth before it is too late?
When her brothers warn her they're in trouble, she can't convince her
father to listen to her, so with an escort, she tries to locate them.
Separated from her escort during a storm, she is discovered by Angus
MacNeill, who is tasked to return her home.
Only Edana has other
notions--and convinces him and his companions to allow her to use her
abilities to locate her brothers who are manacled in a dungeon
somewhere. That leads to a faux marriage and more dungeons and more
trouble than Angus had ever thought possible. So why is the bewitching,
fiery-haired lass making him think of marrying her for real?
woman living alone in a cottage in the Lowlands of Scotland supposed to
do? Prod him with her pitchfork to chase him off! Only the man is not
just a traveler seeking her bed for a rest—but a wounded Highlander, who
fights back, swinging his sword!
Niall MacNeill is searching for a Frenchwoman of nobility to escort
to his cousin's castle for safekeeping, when he and his friend, Gunnolf,
are attacked by another Highland clan, seeking the same woman. The
other Highlanders wish to sell her to the highest bidder—English or
French—it does not matter.
Niall takes refuge in a sheepherder's cottage to heal up from his
wounds and discovers the shepherdess taking care of him may very well be
the woman he seeks. He has no intention of doing anything but what his
cousin requests of him—ensure her safety on their way to Craigly
Castle—but when the lass so bravely wields her pitchfork at him, he is
thinking of other, more interesting possibilities.
Highland Historical Romance set in Scotland.
Brina is torn between hating the Viking who has rescued her, and knowing that his kin had killed her grandfather in an age old tale of fighting between their people, and loving the man who took her under his protection, and the wolf cub she insisted on rescuing.
Now, Gunnolf must make a choice: wed the lass as her father has insisted and restore her father’s position as chief of his clan when he’s not sure her father is trustworthy, hoping he can obtain a peace between his people and hers, or leave well enough alone and stay with the MacNeill clan, his family for the past ten years. The problem is one sweet Highland lass that makes him want a woman—this woman—to warm his bed and have his bairns and to protect and cherish, when having a wife was the furthest notion from his mind…until one prediction changed his whole life.
Quinn’s mission is to steal a woman from a clan and escort her to his brother, Cormac, the chief of their clan, so he can marry her. But Quinn’s brother has tried to have him murdered before, and Quinn suspects Cormac is hoping the woman’s clan kills him this time, if the mercenaries they sent with him don’t do the deed first.
Avelina’s cousin warns her that the storm sank a ship and a warrior lays on the shore, badly injured, but armed. Armed with a sword of her own and with her wolf companion, Avelina finds Quinn and rescues him from the incoming tide, but now she must hide him from her kin before they learn he planned to steal her cousin away. If he survives his injuries and her kin, he must deal with his traitorous brother before it is too late.
