From the Publisher
Maintaining the tenor of the era while building a love story with sensuality and humor is one of Sands’ talents, and one she displays with relish...” — Romantic Times BOOKclub, 4 stars, for AN ENGLISH BRIDE IN SCOTLAND
“Her trademark humor and genuine characters...kept her series fresh and her readers hooked.” — Publishers Weekly
“Lush, lively and romantic - Lynsay Sands hits all the right notes.” — Suzanne Enoch, NYT bestselling author
“New and returning readers alike will enjoy this warmhearted and often hot-blooded adventure.” — Publishers Weekly
“Sands’ companion to The Countess abounds with her hallmark humor and sensuality...fresh and delightful.” — Romantic Times
“Sands spins a funny, laughable tale; you’ll cheer as the drunk and the shrew discover they are a ‘perfect match’.” — Eloisa James
‘Sands is at her best in the third Devil of the Highland novel. Her delightful story featuring highly emotional characters, is filled with honor and passion and laced with Sands’ hallmark wit and sensuality. This one’s a keeper!” — Romantic Times on The Hellion and the Highlander
Romantic Times
Sands’ companion to The Countess abounds with her hallmark humor and sensuality...fresh and delightful.
Eloisa James
Sands spins a funny, laughable tale; you’ll cheer as the drunk and the shrew discover they are a ‘perfect match’.
Romantic Times BOOKclub
Maintaining the tenor of the era while building a love story with sensuality and humor is one of Sands’ talents, and one she displays with relish...
Suzanne Enoch
Lush, lively and romantic - Lynsay Sands hits all the right notes.
Romantic Times on The Hellion and the Highlander
‘Sands is at her best in the third Devil of the Highland novel. Her delightful story featuring highly emotional characters, is filled with honor and passion and laced with Sands’ hallmark wit and sensuality. This one’s a keeper!
Kirkus Reviews
Instead of taking the veil as planned, Annabel is whisked away from the convent and ordered to marry Scotsman Ross MacKay, her runaway sister's intended groom. Since being sent to a convent as an oblate before she was 10 years old, Annabel has known a stern, joyless existence. Now, just weeks before she's meant to take her vows, Annabel's mother shows up to bring her back home, forcing her to marry the man her sister, Kate, has been betrothed to since birth. But Kate has eloped with a servant, and her parents, desperate for the dower, pass Annabel off in her place. After two decades in a stifling religious environment, Annabel's enthusiasm for her newfound freedom and a thousand new experiences is irrepressible, and Ross MacKay, her new husband, is captivated by her charm and spirit, despite the realization she is not his intended bride. Settling into his home and her place as wife of a clan laird, Annabel falls in love with her new life--and her husband--but she has been warned by her mother to keep her convent existence a secret, a detail which rests uneasily beside her honesty and straightforward nature. Navigating her new happiness against a wealth of secrets becomes even more complicated when an unknown enemy seems determined to harm Annabel; Ross must protect and defend the English wife he never knew he wanted but now finds he cannot live without. With humor, wit and compassion, Sands spins the touching tale of a lonely outsider who is rescued from the jaws of a bleak future and finds emotional and physical happiness through a marriage that was never meant to be. Ross is Annabel's perfect hero, allowing her to come into her own and standing up for her in quiet, powerful ways. Watching Ross and his clan fall in love with Annabel is touching, and Ross' prowess at maneuvering the church's "bedding laws" and Annabel's entrenched religious obedience are highly amusing. A sweet, sexy, fun romance, with clever accents of suspense and entertaining dollops of humor.
