To Love a Scottish Lord: Book Four of the Highland Lords (Avon Romantic Treasures.)

by Karen Ranney

The Highland Lords (Book 4)

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A Lord Not Meant to Marry Hamish MacRae, a changed man, returned to his beloved Scotland intending to turn his back on the world. The proud, brooding lord wants nothing more than to be left alone, but an unwanted visitor to his lonely castle has defied his wishes. While it is true that this healer, Mary Gilly, is a beauty beyond compare, it will take more than her miraculous potions to soothe his wounded spirit. But Mary's tender heart is slowly melting Hamish's frozen one . . . awakening a show more burning need to keep her with him -- forever. A Lady Who Dares Not Love Never before has Mary felt such an attraction to a man! The mysterious Hamish MacRae is strong and commanding, with a face and form so handsome it makes Mary tremble with wanting him. Already shadowy forces are coming closer, heartless whispers and cruel rumors abound, and it will take a love more pure and powerful than any other to divine the truth -- and promise a future neither had dreamed possible. show less

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5 reviews
Ok romance. It started to drag a bit at the end
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I read to page 100 and still had nothing to say, I don't know what that really says about the story since I usually have some feelings towards a book by this point.
The scenario Ranney has set-up is a little like "Beauty and the Beast" Whew, there I have something to say about it!
Ranney integrates an interesting concept into the story, Hamish wanting to spend time with Mary because she didn't know him before his capture and torture in India and is not bothered he is a different person. For some reason my mind wandered to contemplating this same mindset about our troops who come home from war. Which could be a mark against the book, because it lost my interest or a plus for it because a concept from it intrigued me and got me thinking. show more (Isn't that suppose to be the purpose of a book?)
OMG! (In a bad way) I don't know if this was suppose to funny or not but it made me laugh. "She was like a snake charmer in an Indian market, and he was a King Cobra responding to her summons." Kind of a cheesy line to stick into a love scene. Ok Ranney just redeemed herself with the next line "He wanted her now in a way that was barely human". OOOh talk about giving me shivers!
The book started to pick-up for me when Mary is accused of murdering her husband by Charles. Charles was Mary's husband's apprentice and very obsessed with her. It was a story line that was interesting to read, especially after I was bored of just Mary and Hamish at their "Castle Gloom". Unfortunately this was waaaaaaay towards the end of the book.
It was great to finally hear the whole story of how Hamish escaped from India, but the timing of it seemed really off to me. He tells it during Mary's courtroom trial and it seemed unnecessary to me; I feel like if I was in the crowd I would have been "Um, ok, so back to Mary"
The ending of the book felt really abrupt to me, crazy since I found myself just wishing it would end for 90% of it. So Mary will forever be found guilty, and what about Charles, with how obsessed he was with Mary there is noway he would just let her go. I can't believe the author wouldn't resolve this? There is one more book in this series so maybe this somehow gets resolved there.
This book was not entertaining at all, skip it!

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To Love a Scottish Lord

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Fiction and Literature, Romance
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813.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English2000-
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