Harlequin HQN
Featuring: Alexander "The Wolf" MacDonald; Margaret Comyn
384 pages ISBN: 0373777701 EAN: 9780373777709 Kindle: B00BV2WCWU Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Best-selling Brenda Joyce has written a very impressive and
captivating novel that is sure to please historical romance
fans. With her strong character development and historical
accuracy and sense of the time, you are instantly pulled in
the unnatural quiet of the Scottish forest in the
Highlands. Why have the animals and birds fled? Then, with
pounding heart, you instantly identify with the lovely Lady
Margaret Comyn as she approaches her home of Castle Fyne.
Will she be able to make it to the castle walls on time?
Lady Margaret is only seventeen in 1306, but has already
experienced much loss in the ongoing wars between England
and Scotland. Her parents, William Comyn and Mary
MacDougall and three of her four brothers had already been
killed. As she approaches her mother's beloved castle and
now her only dowry with her brother William and a small
group of protectors, her heart fills with emotion and
fear. The castle had held off invaders for centuries but
will that hold true now? Castle Fyne is a strategic
location and Margaret's powerful uncle had pledged her in
marriage to an English Lord, Sir Guy de Valence. Her clan
has traditionally hated their enemy, the Clan Donald, and
especially now its leader Alexander MacDonald, the Wolf of
Lochaber. As the Comyns are the most powerful family in
the north of Scotland, Margaret is counting on them to come
to their aid if they get attacked. Surely they would come.
Or is she a throw away in a larger game?
I have to admit that right from the first page, the
powerful story in A ROSE IN THE STORM captivated my
attention and so I am thrilled to find out that it is the
first book in a new Highland Series by best-selling author
Brenda Joyce. With her strong research skills and dramatic
plot development, her existing and new historical romance
fans are sure to love this latest offering from such a
master storyteller. Set against the epic and overarching
backdrop of a real war between two Kings for the crown of
Scotland, Joyce carefully intertwines a romance between two
enemies who need to see if they can find a path that gives
them their true heart's desire. As the war forces movement
between a wide varieties of Scottish locations, it is
almost difficult to differentiate between fact and fiction.
Then again, as the story is so compelling, why would you
want to?
Joyce's characters are also very well depicted and come
across as being very realistic in their motivations and
instincts, even if their decisions, actions and reactions
were not always the purest or for the best. The early 14th
century was a turbulent time in Scottish history and Joyce
fully captures and embodies in Margaret and others how
people of that time would feel about the fast shifting
changes in their stalwart loyalties when the time comes for
a real choice between an English King (Edward) and foreign
Lords and Robert Bruce for the throne, a true Scot, even if
he has a bit of scandal in his court.
On a personal note, I fully appreciate Margaret's growing
feelings towards Alexander MacDonald, especially as once
she get to knows him as I also found the Wolf to be a very
appealing and quintessential hero. He is physically strong
and powerful, is fully loyal to his role as a warrior to
his King and his responsibilities to his Clan; yet, he has
depths of kindness and consideration to others. He makes
thoughtful and tough decisions for what he levies will be
the best for his love for Margaret, his clan and his
people.
A ROSE IN THE STORM is an epic tale that fully deserves to
be made into a
movie as it is so powerfully and vividly told! So, pull up
to the hearth with a vessel of wine and slip back in time.
You will be glad you did! Enjoy!
JOIN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR BRENDA JOYCE FOR AN
EPIC STORY OF UNDYING LOVE AND FORBIDDEN DESIRE IN THE
HIGHLANDS...
When Rivalry Becomes Passion With warfare blazing through
Scotland, the fate of the Comyn-MacDougall legacy depends on
one woman. Recently orphaned, young Margaret Comyn must
secure her clan's safety through an arranged marriage. But
when an enemy invasion puts her at the mercy of the
notorious Wolf of Lochaber, her every loyalty-and secret
want-will be challenged.
And a Kingdom Is at Stake Legendary warrior Alexander "the
Wolf" MacDonald rides with Robert Bruce to seize the throne
of Scotland. But when he takes the fiery Lady Margaret
prisoner, she quickly becomes far more than a valuable
hostage. For the passion between them threatens to betray
their families, their country...and their hearts.
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