Victorian Scotland Trilogy Series by Susan King
Victorian Scotland Trilogy #1
Taming the Heiress
Susan King
Publisher's WeeklyEvocative prose and an alluring setting fail to offset the awkward plotting in King's newest Scottish romance (after The Sword Maiden). In 1850, Meg MacNeill and aristocrat Dougal Stewart meet on a storm-swept rock, where Meg's superstitious family sends her to win the heart of a magical kelpie. According to legend, the kelpie will appear disguised as a man. Instead, she finds and seduces Dougal, believing him to be the kelpie. Afterward, however, Dougal's friends fetch him in a manner that convinces Meg she was tricked. Seven years later, she has secretly borne a son and unexpectedly inherited a vast fortune and a title, but she has never forgiven the man who deceived her. She's also fighting (and losing) a legal battle against an engineer who intends to build a lighthouse on the same prominent rock. When Meg meets Dougal again and realizes he's the engineer, she disguises the fact that she is the baroness who has been trying to thwart his construction plans. The plot contrivances pile up as Meg continues to conceal both her identity and the fact that they have a son, while fending off a villain intent on blackmailing her into marriage. Though the story falls short in conflict and credibility, King's smooth prose and dynamic characterizations will please her fans.
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Victorian Scotland Trilogy #2
Waking the Princess
Susan King
Christina Blackburn posed for a painting that ruined her life. Ever since, she vowed to suppress her passionate nature and keep her identity a secret. Now she has come face to face with the notorious painting-and its dangerously handsome owner.
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Victorian Scotland Trilogy #3
Kissing the Countess
Susan King
Evan Mackenzie, the new Earl of Kildonan, has returned to the beautiful, remote Highland mountains of his childhood for a climbing holiday, but he has no intention of staying. Haunted by tragedy, he plans to sell the sprawling property and return to Victorian Edinburgh. But then Evan finds himself stranded high on a snowy mountaintop with the lovely Catriona MacConn, a woman with a mission of magic so secret and dangerous she will protect it at any cost-even if it means giving up the love of her dreams...
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