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The Lyon and the Lass : The Lyon’s Den Connected World by Callie Hutton  ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫   Lady Christine Spencer is an heiress whose wicked guardian uncle is going to force her into marriage with his lewd friend and holder of his debts. Christine escapes by knotting the sheets together, tying her homemade rope to the bed and climbing out the window, escaping to a new future thanks to Mrs Dove Lyon. The man she’s now destined to marry is a Scott, Laird Kerrigan Lindsay. His clan has suffered setbacks with a sheep ailment, bluetongue disease, wiping out most of the clan’s herd. He needs an heiress to help his people come good. Unfortunately he really has little idea of how strange her circumstances are to Christine and how his clan will react to her. At Luffness Castle he announces to the clan that Christine is his wife and then hares off to Edinburgh (on business to be sure but... Christine is left knowing no-one and having to organize the Keep. for goodness sake! By now I’m ready t...

Highland Surrender  (Sons of Sinclair #5 ) by Heather McCollum       ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s 1536 and Hannah Sinclair, the Sinclair Brothers beloved sister is approaching thirty and her future as a mother looks bleak. She longs for a husband and family but there’s no one who tempts her. Hannah decides that this might be the time to take what she wants. After all a husband is no necessity for a child. Her sister-in-laws agree to help her. (That chat was rather comic!) Erik Halverson is a Norseman, blackmailed by Queen Sophie of Denmark-Norway to kidnap Hannah in order to have a hold over the Sinclairs. She’s worried about their power being set against her daughter Anne, wife to King James of England. She holds Erik’s sister as her bargaining chip. Hannah chooses Erik which leads to some close calls as she tries to seduce him, and of course leads to her eventual kidnapping. Well, that does call  the Four Horseman of the Acopolypse to ride, but not in the way Queen Sophie ...

A Mackenzie Clan Christmas (Mackenzie series) by Jennifer Ashley             Two Christmas season stories with my favorite MacKenzie man taking a lead role, Ian with his wife Beth and their three children. A Mackenzie Yuletide At two in the morning Mac is painting in his room at the top of Kilmorgan Castle when he's disturbed by what appears to be the ghost of a woman. He pursues the trailing  apparition without success. Later, the younger Mackenzies decide to help, after a humorous start. Ian wants to purchase a special present for his Beth for Hogmanay. A heavy gold "antique necklace with intricately worked loops of gold and hung with emeralds and lapis lazuli." Unfortunately its disappeared. Ian brings his unwavering focus to bear on solving the problem, not realizing that his son Jamie is going toe to toe with him trying to find the piece. A Mackenzie Clan Gathering I had read this previously and a second reading in no way diminished my...

( Lost to a Spy (All the Queen's Spies #3)   by  Sharon Cullen.                                       It's 1567 Edinburgh, turbulent times in Scottish history.  Emma Howard, Lady-in-waiting and close confidante to Mary, Queen of Scots, wakes to find herself in the care of a stranger. Lord Darnley, wedded to Queen Mary, has just been murdered and it seems Emma might have seen something suspicious.  All that is moot because she was knocked unconscious as Kirk o’ Field exploded. The stranger, Englishman Tristan Fitzherbert, a spy for Queen Elizabeth had found Emma laying unconscious near to the source of the explosion and taken her to his printing works. Tristan has been printing seditious leaflets, stirring up the people of Edinburgh. This latest happening goes to the heart of the court and Lord Bothwell, Mary's undisputed advisor. As Emma learns more, both he...

Bound to a Spy  (All the Queen's Spies #2) by  Sharon Cullen Rose Turner and Will Sheffield are  u nexpected characters. They are thrown together under fateful circumstances. Will, a spy for Queen Elizabeth I, is attending Mary, Queen of Scots' court, befriending the Queen's petulant and self-centered husband Darnley. He is keeping an eye on the various levels of simmering discontent and rumors swirling around the court as Mary and Darnley's son is about to be baptized. He doesn't expect a plot to murder the Earl of Darnley to be on the list of planned activities.  Rose is a reiver's daughter, a wild young lass more akin to the freedom of the outdoors than a stuffy rigid court. Her mother had been an attendant to Mary's mother. That's how Rose finds herself at court attending Mary, bearing her mother's high expectations of finding a husband and station in life. What Rose wants is to be back home with her family and animals. Which in a rou...

Caught by the Scot  (Made to Marry #1) by  Karen Hawkins                              Another ultimatum type story where the hero/protagonist must marry in order to secure his fortune. Unfortunately his target bride will not go quietly into the night! Miss Theodora Cumberbatch-Snowe  has always adored her brother's friend  Connor Douglas   but marriage to him would be that of a sometime bride as the dashing Scots privateer hied off on more adventures leaving her behind. Hence the idea to settle for the steadfast squire Lancelot Fox. He has little imagination and great expectations of a wife who knows her womanly place. He has forgotten to tell Theodora all this. Her answer to her Connor problem is an elopement. An elopement with mishaps, where the spurned suitor catches up with them.  Connor is about to have his comeuppance, delivered by that supposedly biddable y...