(Lovers & Legends #13)
Author: Nicole Locke
Published: December 2021
Genre: Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Sagas, Medieval Romance, Harlequin Historical, Mills & Boon
Blurb:
Her rugged prisoner
…becomes her fiercest protector
Capturing
legendary Highlander Malcolm of Clan Colquhoun was Andreona’s last chance to
win her tyrannical father’s respect. Instead he orders them both to be killed!
Resigned to her devastating role as the family outcast, she and her prisoner escape
and continue on is quest to return a treasured heirloom. They find solace in
their unexpected passion, but haunted by a lifetime of betrayals, will either
dare to hope it could last beyond their journey?
My Review:
Bravo,
bravo Nicole Locke! I so love it! I couldn’t help but feeling fascinated after
having finished reading it. Andreona is spying two suspicious men coming
towards Basque terrain. She and her childhood friend, Uracca have safeguarded
and designed a net to catch uninvited outsiders to be sent to her father,
Gorka, in order to gain her father’s approval. Actually Andreona and other
women are banished from Basque clan because they are half-blood of the clan
thus she is strongly inclined to impress her father by catching trespassers so
that she can return to the clan.
When
Andreona’s friends succeed in catching his only friend, Malcolm infiltrates
into Andreona’s place and there, they begin wrestling and I was instantly
impressed because Andreona is a tiny lass on the other hand Malcolm is a
beautiful big man with a long scar from the body along his face and eventually
he becomes her prisoner. Malcolm determinedly approaches Basque Country to
acquire a dagger that has Jewell of Kings and mysterious treasure beneath it
for his clan then he plans to run and evade his family due to his profound
mistrust and family’s betrayal.
The
more I turned the pages, the more I couldn’t stop reading particularly when
Andreona finds out that her brother and childhood friend’s betrayal. Malcolm
fully understands how it feels to be betrayed and he has compelling desire
towards her therefore when she rather insists on going with Malcolm than going
with her friend, he agrees.
I
kept wondering how Miss Locke could create this story with its engrossing
historical intrigue and plot, two characters who had similar issue yet each
overcame it with different views and more important, its slow-burn attraction
between Malcolm and Andreona. Andreona is a complete innocent (literally) and I
loved when Malcolm leads the move. Yuhuuuu …
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