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Enchantment of a Highlander by Madeline Martin

After leaving home at an early age to get away from his father, Alec MacLean has finally returned only to find his home in ruins and bandits running rampant on his lands. He is not there long when he finds those bandits attacking a your woman. He defeats them, but is injured. He is soon patched up by the local healer. Not only does he leave with his wounds patched up but with a strong attraction for the woman he just left.

Celia, the healer, has come to enjoy her life. Healing the local people and no laird to dictate to her. When she learns that the man she patched up is none other than the returning laird, she doesn't know how her life will change. She does know that she must fight the attraction she feels for the man, as nothing good can come from it.

When Alec calls Celia to the castle to help heal is foster son, they end up spending a lot more time together. Can this unlikely duo go against the odds and make a life together?

Possession of a Highlander by Madeline Martin

Colin MacKinnon must prove to his father that he is capable of being laird. Setting his sights on Edzell Castle, he plans to seduce the daughter of the castle. He poses as a lowly knight and gets a job as captain of the guard.

Having just lost her father and the man that truly acted as her father within days of each other, Brianna Lindsay needs help keeping her inheritance from her despicable uncle and cousin. As much as she doesn't trust Colin, she needs his help.

Colin needs to marry Brianna and become laird to truly show his father that he is capable. But what happens when his marriage of convenience becomes much more?

Deception of a Highlander by Madeline Martin

To be able to survive, Mariel Brandon became a spy. She has been able to do her job up to this point without having to kill anyone. But that might change with her latest assignment.  If she doesn't get the information she is assigned to get, she is suppose to kill her target. As an added inducement to get the assignment done, Mariel's boss has taken her little brother captive. If she doesn't complete the assignment, he will be killed.

Kieran MacDonald is Mariel's target. He is a man that doesn't let others close to him or his family. Heading back to his home, is is approached by Mariel to be allowed to travel with him. Believing her sob story, he allows her to join his party. Keiran soon learns that there is a spy sent after him. What will he do when he learns it is the lady he is starting to fall in love with?

The Rake's Redemption by Sherrill Bodine

The Rake's Redemption by Sherrill Bodine.

I don't believe it is part of a series, but I did find 2 other books that had characters from this one.

Juliana Grenville is determined to get her brother to go to London for the season. She wants him to enjoy himself since she feels that all he does is work on the estate. 

Julianna and her aunt come up with a plan. They tell Juliana's brother that she is ready to find a husband (she is a widow) and he will follow her to town.

On the trip to town, Juliana and her aunt are in a carriage accident. Dominic, the Marquis of Aubrey, comes to their rescue. He takes them to the nearest inn to have their carriage fixed. He feels an attraction to Juliana and decides to extend his stay at the inn to get to know her better.

Just as the two of them are getting to know each other, Dominic learns who Juliana's husband was. Juliana's husband had talked about her during his time in the army and Dominic had fallen in love with her by those stories alone. But learning who she is means that he is not good enough for her.

Juliana is hurt by Dominic's sudden change of heart and doesn't know what she did that made his attitude toward her change. Can Juliana break through this bearer that Dominic has put up so that each of them my find the love of their lives?
I really loved the story line, but the writing seemed to be amateurish at times.  This is a republished edition, so maybe this was one of the author's earlier pieces of work although I would have though they would do some editing before republishing.

As stated above, I did really enjoy the storyline.  I always love when the author makes the secondary characters so lovable that you want to hear their stories too. Bodine has done this. Juliana's aunt had me laughing out loud at her comments and the secondary love story was an added bonus.  I will definitely be reading the other two stories with related characters in them. It appears that Bodine no longer writes historical romance, which is a shame because I would have liked to read her current work.


You can get this book at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Thanks go to NetGalley and Diversion Books for a copy of the book in exchange of an honest review. 



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