Title: Her Legendary Highlander
(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?

From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

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 …

Her Legendary Highlander captivated me into emotional roller-coaster through its characters combined with its engrossing historical intrigue and plot and the uplifting ending that made me want to read the other series. Thank you, Nicole Locke, for this ARC which I voluntary reviewed.

Rate: 5 of 5

About the Author

Nicole Locke discovered her first romance novels in her grandmother’s closet, where they were secretly hidden. Convinced that books that were hidden must be better than those that weren’t, Nicole greedily read them. It was only natural for her to start writing them – but now not so secretly. You might reach her on https://www.nicolelocke.com/ or Twitter https://twitter.com/NicoleLockeNews