Sometimes I love reading about stubborn Scots (I say this
as one myself, so know that) and other times I just want
to sit them down and smack them across the face (and yes,
I know that wouldn't work; refer to previous
parenthetical aside). It takes a deft hand to walk that
line between charmingly stubborn with character arcs and
so obstinate that the love story can't make sense. Lucky
for all of us, London knows how to walk that line.
Your enjoyment of this book will hang on how much you can
deal with Daisy. If she's off putting to you at the
beginning, I'm not sure how much she'll grow on you.
She's who she is - determined, charming, and strong with
no cultural understanding of what she's gotten herself
into - and her growth is a bending of wills. I could see
why she was making the decisions she was and could
empathize greatly with her, so she worked for me.
Cailaen is sexy as hell, y'all, but stubborn as it, too.
This almost reads like a "King and I" dynamic at times -
except Daisy isn't there to teach anyone English.
The whole thing ends perfectly and I bought the story
from beginning to end. The two main characters drifted
towards being intractable a few times, but London reeled
them back in, providing a thoroughly satisfying happily
ever after.
A young widow puts her sexy suitors to the test in
New York Times bestselling author
Julia London's scintillating return to the idyllic Scottish
Highlands.
Widowed and forced to remarry in three years' time or
forfeit her son's inheritance, Daisy Bristol, Lady Chatwick,
has plenty of suitors vying for her hand…and her fortune.
But a letter from a long-lost love sends Daisy and her young
son to her Scottish Highland estate to buy time for his
return. Along the way she encounters the powerful Cailean
Mackenzie, laird of Arrandale and a notorious smuggler, and
she is utterly—though unwillingly—bewitched.
Cailean has no use for any Sassenach in his glen. But
Daisy's brazen, flirtatious nature and alluring beauty
intrigue him. When her first love appears unexpectedly at
her estate, Cailean knows that a passionate woman like Daisy
cannot marry this man. And to prevent the union, Cailean
must put his own life at risk to win her heart.
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