“there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death…”

Highland Beast (Sons of Sinclair #4) by Heather McCollum     

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I’m always a soft touch for a story with a maligned highland hero and a feisty heroine. Particularly for Shana Drummond who sees through the public persona of the Sinclair brother named Death to the true man inside. Set in the 1590’s in Northern Scotland. 

As a five year old child, his father called him to his purpose with the words, “Ye became the Horseman of Death the day of your birth, the day your mother died giving ye life. ’Twas why I named ye death, Bàs.”

Bàs is known as the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse, the Sinclair brother named Death, and trained to be just that, to be the clan’s executioner. Fearsome to behold, mounted on a pale horse, an unparalleled fighter, men quaked when he and his cohort, a spectre of biblical proportions, were aimed towards them.

Bàs sadly and lovingly maintains a garden of rocks, a silent monument to his victims in a highland dell. With a wolf as his companion, Bàs’ fierce outer persona is seeking to come to grips with his inner poet, attuned to beauty and nature. He’s bearing a great sadness.

Shana is a midwife who steals away from the Oliphant clan to save her sister Ivy’s newborn babe from her brutal husband Erskine Oliphant, who knows the child is not his.

The meeting of these two will change both their lives.

A tale of misunderstanding, of love and acceptance, of Beauty and the Beast.

I loved every minute of it!

An Entangled ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.

Please note: Quotes taken from an advanced reading copy maybe subject to change