Hiding her traits as a witch is increasingly difficult for Isobel MacDonell because her desire to help others in the village sometimes overrides her instincts for protection. Her friend, Ceri, implies and outright states that Isobel has characteristics and hidden gifts she's not yet found. But Isobel feels she's had enough to deal with after her mother's death: denying and hiding her gifts, living in fearful splendor with her keepers...and now.

Now, she's to be spirited away by the rude, but handsome Scotsman (though that's her own noble lineage) Sir Philip Kilpatrick to be taken to her betrothed, a man she's never met. Mysteries revolve around Isobel's mother's fiery death for witchcraft, as they do her father's current health. She vows to find out the truth about both.

An elegantly written book, MY WICKED HIGHLANDER immediately places the reader into 1597, so that one is surprised when modern conveniences disturb the web Hollings has created. Elaborately detailed and interesting, this tale starts the new MacDonell Bride trilogy about three sisters who are witches, which will be published in three consecutive months.