A Grandmother's Will and Secrets From the Fairy Realm Bring Love to the Scottish Highlands in Laird of Twilight, a Historical Romance from Susan King—Scottish Highlands, 1822—James MacCarran, the new Viscount Struan, has no desire to venture onto the thorny battlefield of marriage. But his grandmother's will issues an ultimatum—marry a Highlander with fairy blood or forfeit his inheritance. Then he meets Elspeth MacArthur. She's beautiful, enchanting—luminous, really—with something mysterious and unique about her.Yet, Elspeth is keeping an astonishing family secret and spurns the hopeful and handsome Lord Straun, confident he will never accept her situation.But when an ancient and mystical force portends to reveal the truth behind her secret, Elspeth quickly realizes her only haven is in James' passionate embrace . . . the most dangerous place of all.Publisher Note: Previously published as To Wed a Highland Bride, the story...

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Publisher's WeeklyEvocative prose and an alluring setting fail to offset the awkward plotting in King's newest Scottish romance (after The Sword Maiden). In 1850, Meg MacNeill and aristocrat Dougal Stewart meet on a storm-swept rock, where Meg's superstitious family sends her to win the heart of a magical kelpie. According to legend, the kelpie will appear disguised as a man. Instead, she finds and seduces Dougal, believing him to be the kelpie. Afterward, however, Dougal's friends fetch him in a manner that convinces Meg she was tricked. Seven years later, she has secretly borne a son and unexpectedly inherited a vast fortune and a title, but she has never forgiven the man who deceived her. She's also fighting (and losing) a legal battle against an engineer who intends to build a lighthouse on the same prominent rock. When Meg meets Dougal again and realizes he's the engineer, she disguises the fact that she is the baroness who has been trying to thwart his construction plans. The plot contrivances pile up as Meg continues to conceal both her identity and the fact that they have a son, while fending off a villain intent on blackmailing her into marriage. Though the story falls short in conflict and credibility, King's smooth prose and dynamic characterizations will please her fans.  

Diarmid Campbell scours a battlefield in medieval Scotland for the mysterious healer known as ""Lady Miracle,"" hoping to enlist her powers to help his ailing niece, only to lose his heart in the bargain. Original."About the AuthorSusan King, a Ph.D. candidate in medieval art history at the University of Maryland, took time off from her dissertation to write her first historical romance, The Black Thorne’s Rose. The Sword Maiden marks her tenth novel celebrating the wonderful, magical, and sublimely romantic setting of Scotland. She is a native of New York, and currently lives in Maryland, with her husband and their three sons. Be sure to look for her next historical romance, coming soon from Signet. Susan loves to hear from her readers. She can be reached at P.O. Box 356, Damascus, MD 20872. Please include an SASE for a response.

Evan Mackenzie, the new Earl of Kildonan, has returned to the beautiful, remote Highland mountains of his childhood for a climbing holiday, but he has no intention of staying. Haunted by tragedy, he plans to sell the sprawling property and return to Victorian Edinburgh. But then Evan finds himself stranded high on a snowy mountaintop with the lovely Catriona MacConn, a woman with a mission of magic so secret and dangerous she will protect it at any cost-even if it means giving up the love of her dreams...  

Christina Blackburn posed for a painting that ruined her life. Ever since, she vowed to suppress her passionate nature and keep her identity a secret. Now she has come face to face with the notorious painting-and its dangerously handsome owner.  

Desperate to help her wrongly imprisoned brother, Mairi Macrae takes to the Scottish highways to steal the execution warrant, and waylays the wrong man when she takes down Border officer Rowan Scott.A notorious deputy on a secret mission, Rowan wants nothing to do with the beautiful Highland thief - yet soon they are caught in an intrigue over lost treasure and a mysterious portent.As passion steals both their hearts, Rowan and Mairi must take every risk - and lay down their lives to save each other.