Between a Highlander and a Hard Place

by Mary Wine

Overview

A fierce Englishwoman on the run

A Highland Laird who needs a proper wife

And a desire neither can resist

Athena Trappes thinks she's in love…until she discovers the scoundrel only wanted her as his bit on the side. Enraged, she does what any spirited Englishwoman would do: set fire to his belongings, incur his dangerous wrath, and flee—immediately. With nowhere else to turn, she seeks freedom in the wilds of Scotland.

Highland Laird Symon Grant lost his wife years ago, and it's his duty to find another. Athena is not exactly what the clan has in mind for him, but Symon's heart burns with unexpected passion for the woman who would risk everything to be free.

Highland Weddings Series:

Highland Spitfire (Book 1)

Highland Vixen (Book 2)

Highland Hellion (Book 3)

Highland Flame (Book 4)

Between a Highlander and a Hard Place (Book 5)

What Readers Are Saying About Mary Wine:

"Impossible to put down...one of the genre's finest writers."—RT Book Reviews, Top Pick for Highland Vixen

"Spellbinding…this is one book you have to pick up."—Night Owl Reviews Top Pick, 5 Stars for Highland Flame

"Sizzles with passion and romance...a notch above other Highlands historicals."—Publishers Weekly for Highland Vixen

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492655541
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	10/30/2018
Series:	Highland Weddings , #5
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	450,044
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Acclaimed author Mary Wine has written over 30 works of Scottish Highland romance, romantic suspense and erotic romance. An avid history-buff and historical costumer, she and her family enjoy participating in historical reenactments. Mary lives in Yorba Linda, California with her husband and two sons.

Editorial Reviews

2018-09-18

An English noblewoman with no connections is deceived by a rich aristocrat, but rather than submitting to his scheme to make her his mistress, she flees to Scotland—where she meets her true love.

When Galwell, her betrothed, invites her to dinner at his home, Athena believes he has sent marriage contracts to her uncle, but instead it turns out to be a ruse, designed to coerce her into becoming his mistress. Angry and defiant, she spurns him and sets fire to his home when she knocks over a candle trying to escape. When the constables come for her, her uncle manages to slip her away, sending her on a sales trip to Scotland as an assistant to a cloth merchant he knows, hoping to buy time to salvage her freedom. He tells her to disguise herself as a boy and not tell anyone, even the merchant, that she's really a woman. When she sheds her disguise for an evening at a village fair and kisses a handsome Highlander, Will, one of the merchant's other assistants, also sees her and attempts to sell her to a brothel. Escaping that scrape, she runs straight into Symon, the Highlander, who absconds with her to his estate. At first furious, Athena relaxes when she realizes he wants to keep her safe. However, Will has an axe to grind and tracks her into the Highlands, then abducts Symon's cousin Brenda when he can't find Athena. All parties wind up in Edinburgh, where a run-in with the recently installed king presents an obstacle to saving Brenda and threatens Symon and Athena's happy-ever-after due to political intrigues. Watching Symon and Athena figure themselves out is fun, but there are way too many coincidences and incidents where characters make odd choices to move the plot forward and instances where our credulity is stretched for the book to be completely satisfying.

Entertaining despite some flaws.

Kirkus Reviews

"Ferguson is a must for narrating a Wine book and I do adore his highlanders!" -Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell

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