Hazel Hunter

This was different. It was a smorgasbord of subject matter all rolled into one story. There's time travel, Highlanders, druids and vampires which seems kind of hokie but the author made it work.

Captain Kinley Chandler of the USAF was in an explosion and was caught in enemy fire. She survived but suspects she will soon die in the VA hospital in San Diego. Although her body is a wreck, she was not burned in the explosion. She's never been burned.

Her therapist takes her on a wheelchair ride to show more try to cheer her up. When the therapist leaves her in an oak grove to run back to the van to get her phone, Kinley sees her chance to roll down the hill and end things.

Instead of dying, she's transported to medieval Scotland in the middle of a battle between what looks like Romans and Highlanders. When six Romans surround one of the men, Kinley runs out and ends up frying them with the fire that shoots out of her hands.

She thinks she's either dead or in a coma, dreaming up this wild tale. She is completely healed so she knows it has to be a dream.

Lachlan McDonnel is the laird of his clan. He was fighting the undead when the lass came out from behind the stones and saved his life. He kissed her. She punched him so or of his men knocked her out and he takes her back to his castle.

The book was entertaining and we'll written. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series. show less

This series is pretty interesting. It mixes time travel with medieval Scottish Highlanders who are really from the first century, good druids, a pair of crazy druids, an evil druidess, a bitter druid and creepy creatures who kind of look like humans but are really ancient totems made from sacred oaks who are now alive. There's really not a moment of boredom in this book.

Ruadri is the shaman for the Scaraven clan, immortal Highlanders who were bred as warrior slaves but who are now free. His show more clan doesn't know that he is actually half druid. While his clan trained together to fight as children, he was separated and taught druid ways and how to fight. He was trained by a cruel druid named Galan who told him he had to spy on his clan or he would kill them with poison. Ruadri later learned Galan was his sire and hated Ruadri because his wife died during childbirth.

Emeline has endured a living nightmare. She was abducted from present day Scotland where she is a nurse by a creepy tree person, dragged beneath the earth and then whirled into medieval Scotland. There, she learned that the tree creatures were doing the bidding of two psychotic druids. She and four other women were beaten, starved and kept in a freezing barn for weeks until they were rescued by the Scaraven.

Emeline has always been a heavyset woman and suffers low esteem from it. She is also having dark thoughts like she is possessed so when Ruadri shows interest in her, she rebuffs him.

Just as I was getting into this series, I learned that the next book is not out yet. I'll have to wait a little while for it. show less

I'm enjoying this medieval Scottish time-traveling series by Hazel Hunter. I thought it would be ridiculous because it is about an immortal Scottish clan fighting immortal Roman vampires who the author calls “undead” but it's not ridiculous. It's good.

In the last book, we met Kinley who time traveled from San Diego to medieval Scotland and ended up marrying the McDonnel Clan leader, Lachlan.

In this book, Diana Burke is the detective from the Missing Person's Unit in charge of looking for show more Kinley. She ends up falling into medieval Scotland and finds Kinley living happily with Clan McDonnel.

Diana finds herself liking it there too, especially because of one gorgeous tattooed Scot named Tharaen aka Raen. She wants to stay but finds herself with a powerful opponent, a druid named Bhaltair. The moment he saw Diana, he wanted her to be gone. He looked like he hated her and she didn't know why.

They know that anyone who travels through the gate from the future has druid blood. Diana's druid gift is that she can track people so the clan finds her useful and may side with her against the druids. This might not end well.

There are some graphic and strange sex scenes in this book which had me cringing but other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. show less

There was so much going on in this book and points of view from so many characters that I don't think I got a good feel for the two main protagonists. Their romance seemed to take a back seat to all the other things going on in the story. It was all very interesting but the romance did suffer a bit.

Lily Stover was abducted from our time and taken back to medieval Scotland by two crazy druids and some tree creatures formed as humans. She and four other women were abducted, beaten and fed only show more when someone remembered to feed them.

The women have druid ancestry which enables them to travel through ancient oak groves. The crazy male druid makes a deal with Lily that he would make sure the other women were cared for better if Lily travels through the nearby oak grove to find the woman who escaped and the Scaraven Clan with whom she resides.

Cadeyrn is the war master of the Scaraven Clan. They are immortal warriors and the only ones who can fight the famhairean, the psycho tree creatures who are devoted to the crazy druid couple. Cadeyrn dreamed of Lily even before he met her but all affection for her flees when she tricks him and he is captured by the famhairean and the crazy druids.

This book kept me glued to it except during the sex scenes. This author has the strangest sex scenes that I've ever read, and I have read thousands. I just skim over the weird parts and hope I don't miss anything vital to the story.

The plot is getting more complex and I can't wait to see what will happen next. show less