Loving Her Lonely Highlander (Time to Love a Highlander #6)

Maeve Greyson

Blurb:

Her fit of anger becomes a leap back through time into the arms of a man she can never have.

21st century bookshop owner, Lorna Merriweather is known for her patience. Especially regarding her fiancé. Tonight, he’s promised to go to the cliffs to watch for the northern lights. He must have something special to share if he’s willing to treat her to the Aurora Borealis in the bitter cold that he hates. But when his something special turns out to be a cruel betrayal impossible to forgive, she throws his ring in his face and storms away, stumbling over the cliff straight into the arms of the most amazing northern lights show of her life. But she doesn’t fall to her death. When her head clears, it’s morning and she’s back on the hillside in the middle of a snowstorm. Where is the glow of the town’s colorful festival lights? And where is her terrible ex-fiancé? Everything looks familiar—but not. Thank goodness a strange woman and her family come along in an antique carriage and offer her a ride back to town. Or at least where town is supposed to be.

17th century Gunn Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness and chieftain of Clan Sinclair, has been widowed twice. He loved both wives and can’t stand the thought of going through that heartbreak again. But his beloved daughter Arabella needs a mother, and he needs an heir. The only solution is an arranged marriage to a woman he will never love. An amicable passionless union is what he seeks.

Young Arabella is not about to let her father marry a woman so cruel to her son and lady’s maid that they tremble when she is near. But she decides that the nice Mistress Lorna would do quite nicely for a new mama. And Mistress Lorna has seen how wicked Lady Murdina is, so Arabella knows she will help her get that she-devil out of Thursa Castle. They form a pact to stop the wedding and save the chieftain from the disastrous match.

But what Lorna doesn’t know is that Arabella isn’t planning on halting the ceremony, the wily nine-year-old merely wants to switch brides.

Themes: Time Travel, historical, Scotland

Rating: 4 stars

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Review:

Once again Maeve Greyson Sends us on a fanciful and interesting trip back into the past as one of the time-lost travel back from modern Scotland and into the 17^th century where they find love and everlasting happiness. This series grabbed my attention at book one and I have been a fan of each one for different reasons, even as each one has been unique and interesting in its own ways. In this story, 21^st Century bookseller and lover of history Lorna Merriweather is viewing the northern lights on the cliffs with her fiancé late one night when every goes wrong for her—first her shows himself for the bastard he is, then she finds herself falling from the cliff into a void of the lights and waking up in the middle of a deadly snowstorm. When she manages to stumble onto a ride back into town it comes in the form of an antique carriage, but she suddenly finds herself in a whole different world, on run by the sexy but distant Laird Gunn Sinclair. Gunn has already buried two wives and he has no intention of losing his heart again, but he knows he needs to marry again and has found a woman he thinks will fit the bill, but when she arrives with a strange woman in tow, he begins to question his decisions. With the aid of his daughter Arabella, Lorna soon finds herself falling for Gunn and he for her, but can two people from such different backgrounds and with such disparate lies truly find a lasting match and is the love they are developing safe for either of them? I loved seeing Gunn and his friends and family slowly falling in love with Lorna and seeing her for the woman she was, the kind of woman that needed a real man to love her, not like the ass of a fiancé that treated her so shabbily. Gunn was a protective, brave, intelligent, and dedicated leader but also a loving and generous father and friend, one that made a perfect match for Lorna. Lorna obviously saw through the pain Gunna presented to the world and tried to hide behind after the losses he’d felt, but she never gave up on him and gave him the time to heal and accept their love and relationship without walking away. I enjoyed their story and with each new couple can imagine that Maeve could keep this series going forever with very little trouble.

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