Saving Her Highland Traitor (Time to Love a Highlander #5)

Maeve Greyson

Blurb:

She wanted a new beginning. Not love or a life with a man about to be executed three hundred years in the past.

Twenty-first century tour guide Mila Carthson and her godson Robbie are excited to launch their first tour of the season in their brand new minibus. They made it through a horrific year of him being bullied and three deaths in the family. Now it’s spring and time for new beginnings. Things can only get better.

But after hours on the road with tourists who act worse than spoiled toddlers, Mila begins to wonder. Surely, a sack lunch surrounded by Glencoe’s beauty will improve the day. She gets the group settled, then she and Robbie climb to higher ground for some badly needed peace.

While they’re eating, the strangest storm blows in and makes her and Robbie so ill, all they can do is hug it out while the wind and rain batters them. When the weather lifts, everything is different. Not just different, but changed beyond belief. And someone is coming. On horseback. At a thundering, breakneck speed.

The last thing eighteenth century Chieftain Teague MacDonald needs is an unforeseen interruption in his interception of the Campbell clan’s favorite whisky. But his greatest weakness is taking in strays. Especially comely wenches. And this one is that. Fiery as a freshly lit torch, too. So, even though persecuting the bloody Campbells, smuggling, and quietly strengthening the Jacobite cause keeps him busy, this lovely lass is too tempting to ignore. And the longer he is around her, the more he wants her and wishes she would let him save her from whatever terrible secret set her and the lad on the run in the first place. One way or another, he will win her trust. And with any luck, he will win even more.

Mila has been many things. Tour guide. Substitute mother. Grieving friend. But the eighteenth century transforms her into something she never expected: a woman in love like never before. Except she knows Teague is going to be executed soon. She read about it while researching his castle’s remains back in the twenty-first century. Somehow, she has to keep him alive. But can the history books and destiny be rewritten?

Themes: Historical, Time travel

Rating: 4.5 stars

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Review:

Most never get the chance to learn history in such a hands-on manner, but Maeve Greyson loves to send her time-lost women back to the most dangerous and sometimes historically intriguing times so they can experience it all. In this latest installment Mila Carthson and her godson Robbie are swept into a terrifying storm and awaken on the moors of Scotland hundreds of years in the past and directly in the path of a speeding destrier. Chieftain Teague MacDonald has been working for years to improve his clan’s status and stop the Campbell’s from overtaking them, but he can’t help but take in the two weary and strangely attired newcomers when he stumbles upon them. Though he knows Mila is lying to him about something, Teague soon begins to find himself falling more and more for her, but Mila knows something about his past she can’t find a way to forget. She has to convince Teague to give up his dangerous mission or another way to change history, because Teague has come to mean more to her than anything in the world. Can a woman that never once believed in fate really change the course of history in order to protect the man she’s come to love or will she be stranded in the past having lost the love of her life to the history she knew was coming? Mila was an interesting character, one that has had a lot of loss in her life, but is not willing to give up and is determined to do whatever she has to in order to give Robbie the life he deserves. She is sarcastic without being mean, intelligent and kind, but when her back is to the wall, she will defend hose she loves with every ounce of courage she possesses. Teague is the typical bad boy alpha Chieftain of his time, unwilling to listen to the council of others until its almost too late, but in the end his intelligence and levelheadedness kept his from being too stubborn. I loved seeing him interacting with the precocious and misunderstood Robbie, even though he didn’t quite understand the ways in which Robbie was different than most young men. The heat between Mila and Teague was a slow build but one that was intense and lovely to watch. I am dying to see if there are more stories in this series as I have enjoyed each of the stories thoroughly and hope it continues for a long time. Maeve Greyson truly is one of my favorite historical authors, giving that little bit of something extra to everything she writes that makes it unique and special.

*eARC provided by publisher (via NetGalley) for the purpose of an honest and unbiased review. No compensation was provided.