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ONLY FOR A KNIGHT

Only For a Knight, June 2005
by Sue-Ellen Welfonder

Warner Forever
Featuring: Robbie MacKenzie; Juliana MacKay
384 pages
ISBN: 0446613827
Paperback
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ONLY FOR A KNIGHT
Sue-Ellen Welfonder

Reviewed by Suzanne Tucker
Posted June 17, 2005

Romance Historical

They've spent a lifetime living in near poverty, but Juliana MacKay makes a deathbed promise to her mother. She must journey to Kintail, a country on the western coast of Scotland, to deliver an unpaid debt to the heavily pursed laird, the Black Stag. He deserves a hundred thousand curses piled on his head, not the last coins of a poor and dying woman.

Robbie MacKenzie is returning to Kintail after being away for 10 years. He's a living legend in Scotland and the sole heir of the Black Stag clan. He's a prize catch of any lucky lassie he chooses for his own, but Robbie has promised to marry a bride from a rival clan. That is until he accidentally meets a red-haired beauty who stirs his heart and soul like no other has ever done.

Robbie sees the fairest face he e'er laid eyes on, a beautiful woman with a crescent-shaped gash on her forehead after rescuing a ewe from an icy cold lochan. Juliana has forgotten her own identity, as well as her mission. But one look at her dashing rescuer, and she knows he'll slay dragons for her. Her heart is lost.

They were meant to meet. They were made for each other. They are each others' darkness and light. They are consumed by love.

ONLY FOR A KNIGHT will win your heart. It's a fast-moving adventure that captivates and intrigues. It's steamy, sensual and utterly breathtaking. If you love Scottish tales as I do, you'll treasure this one.

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SUMMARY

For ten lusty years, Robbie Mackenzie has savored the sensual pleasures that only a man with no wife can taste. To the lassies of Scotland, he is a living legend, the sole heir of the Black Stag clan, and a prize catch indeed. But Juliana Mackay has no such interest in the rogue or his powerful family. Her mission-to deliver an unpaid debt for her dying mother-is the only thing that could force her within reach of the wayward knight. That is, until an accidental blow to the head sends her reeling right into the brawny arms of Robbie MacKenzie himself. In the heat of the moment, their passions ignite. But Juliana has forgotten her own identity, as well as her mission-and Robbie has promised to marry a bride from a rival clan. How can these two star-crossed lovers resist the love that burns in their hearts…and the desire that consumes their souls?

EXCERPT

Chapter One IN THE MIST-SHROUDED FASTNESSES of Kintail, a rugged country of sea lochs, wild heather hills, and moorlands on the western coast of Scotland, one man has e'er held sway. Since time beyond mind some might say, Duncan MacKenzie, the famed Black Stag of Kintail, has called this hauntingly beautiful place his own. His, and the great house of MacKenzie, the most powerful clan in the region. Truth be told, those who visit Kintail cannot help but be awed by the grandeur and magic of the land, or the tall tales circulated about its legendary chieftain. A deceptive air of tranquility and timelessness clings to the dark peaks and shadowed glens, a peace made possible only by the puissant Black Stag's competent rule-and his formidable reputation. Few are those who would cross him. And most who have tried are no more. Yet, of late, during long Highland nights beside the fire, the more bold amongst the tongue-waggers declare that the Black Stag has grown complacent and would surrender his lairdship to his only son and heir, Robbie MacKenzie. A braw young man whose task would seem tame, inheriting a land so favored, its people already loyal and true. But all is not as it seems in the soft Highland air and broad, cloud-hung hills of Kintail, its purple moors and empty glens. For deep within the most remote corner of this expanse of hill and sea, change and disruption stir like an ancient benediction chanted just beneath the surface to echo across the heather until even one so mighty as the Black Stag cannot deny its truth. Or run from the burdens and memories of the past. Robbie, too, must trod the path of fate. A path indelibly inscribed on his destiny and unleashed by the whispered last wishes of a frail and dying woman.

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