Book: The Highlander’s Welsh Bride
By Cathy MacRae
Series: The Hardy Heroines , Book #5
Release Date: 12/27/2018
Reviewed by: Barb Massabrook (of)
1)Tartan Book Reviews
2)Celtic World of Historical Book Reviews
3)Purple Tulip Book Reviews
4)Celtic Barb’s Tartan Book Review Blog
Book Rating: 5/5 Stars/Kilts
Reviewed by: Barb Massabrook (of)
1)Tartan Book Reviews
2)Celtic World of Historical Book Reviews
3)Purple Tulip Book Reviews
4)Celtic Barb’s Tartan Book Review Blog
Book Rating: 5/5 Stars/Kilts
MacLean Castle
Morvern, Lochaline, Scotland
1279
A very emotional read: It starts off why Laird Birk MacLean has no trust in women. As his first wife took a lover, but as Birk required the proof of his wife’s unfaithful ways and finally had it! He truly wanted to make her suffer! Yet she and her lover were both dead in the bottom of the sea from a shipwreck! Some say God was paying them back for their infidelity and cheating ways. This was an arranged marriage that was supposed to help resolve clan animosity. It had been a complete falsehood, though he did have two daughters, but still no son and no heir. This meant he must marry again-to secure a future Laird for the Clan! This was the last thing Baron/Laird Birk MacLean wanted!
Princess Cary Wen is sitting in the Dungeon of The MacLeans for poaching deer. The punishment for this offense is death by hanging! Yet for Baron and Laird Birk MacLean he is weary of the parade of lassies being presented to him. Either they were of frail nature or just wanted to use him for his title and wealth. He had no use for this bunch of self-centered, weak minded, useless women that only care for themselves! Laird Birk would love a strong wife who could aid him with one of the most powerful, brawny, indestructible clans in western Scotland!
As it had been the aftermath of war, Prince Llewelyn of Wales was dead, after making his last attempt against the English! His warriors escaping King Edward I (Longshanks) capture, imprisonment but mostly death by execution! After all it was a time when Vikings, pirates, bandits and rogues control the Sea! Yet all who fought alongside the Prince of Wales was known as a traitor. This is when Birk MacLean was hearing tales of Llewelyn’s wife. One lass who fought at her husband's side as a warrior in Wales fight for independence only a year earlier.
Cary had known she must escape further north to keep out of Longshanks clutches, or she would be joining her husband in the afterlife. Now she and her brother grab a boat, yet it is shipwrecked. Now everyone she ever loved is gone. The Princess of Wales who escaped on a boat thinking she would be safe away from Longshanks not realizing their were other dangers like pirates, Vikings and disagreeable Scots! Who knew, certainly not her, especially not expecting a death sentence! Now she gets an offer she wasn’t expecting to become this a Lairds wife or death? Would entering this marriage make her wish for death? Plus with so many lies and secrets surrounding them, how can a marriage work? A man who was cuckolded and a woman betrayed! How can this arranged marriage turn into a thing called love?
This is the fifth book in the Hardy Heroines series. A fun exceptional read I love highly recommend. As with any book in this series can be read as a stand alone book too. I personally enjoying reading in book order to see how the characters dots connects. It’s definitely personal choice. Any readers who love true history weaved with a fictional romance will absolutely love this book! It has some well known names in history as well as fictional characters. Yet all the ingredients of characters all mix well and it’s a story well done indeed! I loved this book and any historical romance reader will love this book from start to finish.
This fast paced page turner is a riveting adventure I did not want end! From heartbreak, war, death, betrayal, imprisonment, arranged marriage, hatred, love, holding onto life by a thread and so much more. Incredible settings, characters you can’t help but love and dialogues that are brilliant! The plotting is amazing! As I found plots within plots and finding yourself holding your breath with anticipation, not knowing what could possibly happen next!
I can’t recommend this book enough as I absolutely and unequivocally loved The Highlander’s Welsh Bride by Cathy & DD MacRae.
Disclaimer: I received a gift copy from the author for a fair and honest review. I voluntarily agreed to read, review and blog All words, ideas and thoughts are my own.
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