Druid sorcerer Cian MacKelter has spent the past 1133 years
trapped inside the Dark Glass. The mirror, one of the
Unseelie Hallows, keeps Cian captive as long as Lucan
Trevayne, the Dark Sorcerer who imprisoned him, pays it a
tithe of pure gold at midnight on Samhain Eve (Halloween)
once each 100 years. The mirror's Dark Gift is immortality
for Lucan. When the mirror is stolen shortly before the
tribute comes due, Lucan is ready to move heaven and earth
to have the Glass returned to him. He sends out assassins
to track down the Glass and kill anyone who may have come
into contact with it.
For grad student Jessi St. James, a real life is something
she plans on having just as soon as she has a little free
time. Right now, she has classes and work to contend with.
Jessi can't even remember the last time she went on a date.
Jessi is asked to take delivery for a large artifact for
one of her professors, an immense mirror of indeterminate
age. As an archaeology student, Jessi is fascinated by the
relic. As she's examining it, she's attacked by a stranger.
But a voice in the mirror calls out to her and gives her an
incantation that will free a "savior" from the mirror. Even
though everything has suddenly become very surreal, Jessi
repeats the incantation and frees Cian from his prison.
Cian makes quick work of Lucan's assassin, but he knows
more will be on the way and he vows to protect Jessi. In a
sensual daze, she agrees, although when she looks at the
big handsome stranger she knows she must be dreaming. Of
course, when she wakes up, the sexy Highlander who saved
her the night before is still very much there, although the
mirror has reclaimed him. The Glass always eventually
reclaims Cian, and so it will remain until the Compact is
broken.
Jessi and Cian go on the run, protecting each other, for
while Cian is in the Glass, he's powerless and must depend
on Jessi. When he's free...it's another story altogether.
Eventually they end up at Castle Kelter, where a showdown
with Lucan will not only decide the fates of Jessi and
Cian, but of this world as we know it. Lucan, it seems, has
big plans for his immortality and all that stands in his
way is one family of meddling Highlanders and their women.
This series just keeps getting better! SPELL OF THE
HIGHLANDER is the seventh of the Highlander books and is
every bit as compelling as its predecessors. Moning's
Highlanders are all very much the sexy alpha males -- and
Cian is no exception. Jessi is the perfect spunky heroine
to claim him as her own. As many times as he saves her, in
the end it's Jessi who saves Cian and brings about their
happy ending. This story is definitely a Woo Hoo event!
Powerful. Sensual. Seductive. He is all that is shamelessly
erotic in a man. In her sexiest Highlander novel yet,
New
York Times bestselling author Karen Moning stirs up a
sizzling brew of ancient mystery and modern passion as she
brings together a devilishly handsome Celtic warrior
trapped
in time... and the woman who's about to pay the ultimate
price for freeing him. Age-old secrets haunt them. Deadly
danger and irresistible desire shadow their every move.
It's
a relationship for the ages. And all that separates them is
a mere eleven hundred years...
Jessi St. James has got to get a life. Too many hours
studying ancient artifacts has given the hardworking
archaeology student a bad case of sex on the brain. So she
figures she must be dreaming when she spies a gorgeous
half-naked man staring out at her from inside the silvery
glass of an ancient mirror. But when a split-second
decision
saves her from a terrifying attempt on her life, Jessi
suddenly finds herself confronting six and a half feet of
smoldering, insatiable alpha male.
Heir to the arcane magic of his Druid ancestors, eleven
centuries ago Cian MacKeltar was trapped inside the Dark
Glass, one of four coveted Unseelie Hallows, objects of
unspeakable power. When the Dark Glass is stolen, an
ancient
enemy will stop at nothing to reclaim it, destroying
everything in his path, including the one woman who may
just
hold the key to breaking the ninth-century Highlander's
dark
spell. For Jessi, the muscle-bound sex god in the mirror is
not only tantalizingly real, he's offering his protection,
from exactly what, Jessi doesn't know. And all he wants in
exchange is the exquisite pleasure of sharing her bed.
Yet even as Cian's insatiable hunger begins to work its
dark
magic on Jessi, his ancient enemy is about to obtain the
final and most dangerous of the Unseelie Hallows, and the
ninth-century Highlander must stop him from getting it.
Nothing less than the very fabric of the universe and two
passionately entwined lives are at stake, as Cian and Jessi
fight to claim the kind of love that comes along but once
in
an ice age...