About the book: Scottish Highlands, 1700s:
Barely two weeks have passed since Laird Collin MacDonald first darkened Katherine Mercer’s doorstep and married her. Marriage has hardly been what she expected, given their grueling and adventurous days of travel to the Scottish Highlands. Along with the discovery that Collin’s twin Ian would like to see her dead, Katie must now face her own clan, whose chief wants to kill Collin and take her to wife himself. All because Katie possesses the Campbell gift of sight, passed down through centuries of her ancestors.
With little more than faith in her grandfather’s vision and her unique bond with Collin to guide her, Katie steps bravely into an unknown future, where the glimpses afforded her may bring more danger than direction. When the misuse of her gift takes Collin from her side, she is left alone and vulnerable. Help arrives in the most unexpected form as Ian MacDonald makes good on his threat to attack the Campbells and Katie learns that the bond between brothers and love knows no bounds.
My review: This book is a bit different from other books that I've read lately. Different in a good way. It's set in Scotland in a turbulent political time. The English are trying to tame the Scottish people by taking away a lot of their rights, their ability to bear arms, wear tartans, and even play the bagpipes. This really is a crazy time and place in history.
Enter this story, a love story set in this turbulent time. But this is also a different type of love story. The story is about Katie and Collin and they're married, but only just. The two of them are fighting for their homes and their lives and their fighting family, people who should care for them, not try to kill them.
I loved the whole plot line of this book. There was danger around every turn for both our hero and our heroine. In fact, Collin is taken violently away from Katie. I loved that the whole feeling of that time for Katie was dark, just as she would have felt. Katie is such a strong young woman. She knows what she wants and she fights for it, no matter what. She is at one point in the story poisoned, or at least that's what her enemy thinks. She realizes that something is wrong when the rats stop moving. I love that she is strong enough to figure out what's up and smart enough to not let her captors know she hasn't died before they come into the room.
I like that you see things through Katie's perspective, hers is the only perspective. That becomes important later in the plot and I loved the way the author does that in this book, it really makes the whole plot more compelling.
I highly recommend that you read Yesterday's Promise before this one, so you have some idea of the backstory of Katie and Collin. It's on sale right now too, details below. That being said, I hadn't read it first and I understood everything that was going on.
This is such a great book! You won't want to put it down!
I was sent an e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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