From New York Times bestselling author of The Husband Hunt, The Heiress, and other beloved historical romances, comes Lynsay Sands’s An English Bride in Scotland, the first book in a new series set in the wilds of the Highlands. Annabel had planned to become a nun. But when her mother arrives at the Abbey to bring her home to marry a Scottish laird—her runaway sister’s intended husband—her life … laird—her runaway sister’s intended husband—her life takes a decidedly different turn.
And though Annabel isn’t the wife he’d planned for, strong, sexy Ross McKay is taken with his shy, sweet bride.
Annabel knows nothing about being a wife, running a castle—or the marriage bed. But her handsome new husband makes her want to learn. When Annabel’s life is threatened, Ross vows to move the highlands itself to save her and preserve the passion that’s only beginning to bloom.
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Love this book it has a great adventure and strong heroine. Hero is romantic protector and will have you wishing you had one of your own. Great thing about the Highlander romances by Lynsay Sands is the connections each book has to other books. This one leaves wanting to visit the hero and heroine again and you can if you read To Marry a Scottish Laird gives you future look at them and you discover a secret about her sister.
This was a fun, sexy read. I find the ridiculous situations these heroines find themselves in to be humorous, despite the silly nature. It’s never over the top unlike some crazy annoying comedies they’ve produced in movies!
Still the characters were likeable, it got serious too, and steamy. The emotions were there. And it could be crazy funny.
I really enjoyed it.
I dont know why I waited to long to read this book/series. I really enjoyed it and laughed out more then once. I will forsure read the other books in this series as well.
Annabel is nearly ready to become a full-fledged nun when her mother unexpectedly whisks her away from the abbey with virtually no explanation. Within a day, Annabel finds herself marrying a Scottish laird in the place of her runaway elder sister. Sheltered Annabel has no idea how to be a wife or run a keep, but she’ll need to learn in a hurry.
Laird Ross MacKay knows the marriage contract his late father arranged is voided by the sneaky substitution of the wrong sister, but when he sets eyes on Annabel, he’s keen to go along with the ceremony and make the shy beauty his wife. When attacks from an unknown enemy target Annabel soon after the wedding, Ross is determined to keep her safe even as his feelings for her grow ever deeper.
This was typical Lynsay Sands craziness and humor, and I really enjoyed it. Ross was a great hero and even though I sometimes wanted to shake Annabel and the villain was rather obvious, the story was still entertaining. I enjoyed the narration as well and will continue my audio pursuit to fill in the books I’ve missed in this series.
This books was a fun, easy read. The humor that Lynsay Sands provides is stomach rolling and tear inducing. I definitely recommend it if you are in the mood for a Highland love story!
This is the first book in the Highland Brides series and each book can be read as a standalone title. This was such a great introduction into this world and I just had so much fun being introduced to these new characters. I just had a really great time reading this story and I just didn’t want it to end. I just fell in love with Annabel and Ross and their story. They just had my emotions all over the place and I just felt so much for them and what they had to go through. This is a definite must read. You will not be disappointed. I can’t wait to see what’s next from this author.
The intended bride of Christ becomes the bride of a highlander instead
Rating: MA: mature audience: contains language, violence and sexual content: explicit descriptive sex scenes between a married couple.
Our story… a contracted betrothal formed many years before between former friends… Lord MacKay’s son with Lord Withram’s eldest daughter. Only one problem… as an English woman, she didn’t want to be wed to a barbaric Scotsman. She envisioned herself in love with the handsome son of their stable master and ran off with him instead. What was the family to do? Lady Withram did a hasty journey to the abbey to retrieve their other daughter with the intention of marrying her off to the MacKay instead of her sister. Hopefully, the groom would not know the difference.
“Okay, okay. I can do this, I can do this just breathe. Mentally I prepared myself but it didn’t help with the feeling of jumping off a cliff deep in my belly.” –A.J. Young, My Mate The Monster
Annabel: she had lived at the abbey since the age of seven. With the betrothal already set, she was the spare and was no longer needed at home. Annabel had no notion of why she was sent to the nunnery… just that she was. Fourteen years later, her mother suddenly appeared at the abbey gate and demanded to speak to the abbess. In no time, Annabel was whisked away at top speed without even a by-your-leave. When she reached home… she was hurried upstairs in preparation for the imminent arrival of Lord MacKay… her betrothed. What???
Sister Kate: “I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn’t want to think about it.” –Elizabeth Wein, the Pearl Thief
Talk about your selfish, self-centered, narcissistic, whining, psychopath b-witch. Yep that was our girl and her actions started a ball rolling down a hill that quickly became an avalanche of misfortune for her family. Poor Annabel had no idea what was going on. As soon as they arrived at Waverly Castle [her home… former home] she was tossed into a bath and trussed up in a dress that barely fit. She was then quick-marched… um… escorted to the castle chapel where she was immediately wed to a man she did not know. She watched as her parents breathed a sigh of relief.
Ross MacKay saw that there was something off as soon as he and his men arrived at the keep of Waverly Castle. The people wouldn’t look him in the eye and there was an air about the place that put his instincts on edge. It took forever for his intended to be brought down from her chambers and his men returned from the stables where they overhearing some alarming gossip. Normally Ross wouldn’t listen to gossip but this involved the first daughter running off and the family disowning her. That meant he was being given the second daughter… although she was arguably the eldest daughter now. Just as he was about to leave, she descended the stairs. After seeing her, he decided that he would marry her.
I read this many years ago as a hardback and recently acquired it as an ebook. I loved it then and I still love it now. This was a story that had all the elements of a historical romance with a brawny highlander and a feisty woman. This was funny as well as an angst driven mystery. Someone kept knocking out our hero and attempting to kidnap our heroine. Lynsay Sands was sneaky as she kept shining a light on different people instead of revealing the true villains. It was a surprise and I didn’t see it coming. Realistically: I was concerned about TBI: traumatic brain injury with so many blows to the head. I mean concussions aside… being bashed by a brawny villain is not good for the brain. Being unconscious for several days is not healthy either. Just saying.
The secondary characters were a ‘Keystone Cops’ type of crew that you couldn’t help but fall in love with. His first and second were the best of men that stood by his side as all manner of mischief befell our couple. Poor Annabel had spent the majority of her life in the presence of women so didn’t know how to act around men. She had not been trained to be a mistress of a manor/castle so didn’t have the first clue as to how she needed to run a household let alone command an army of servants. Poor girl was so naïve and innocent in her actions that Ross simply fell in love with her in spite of her deficiencies, as she called them. It was adorable. There were a few places that pulled me from the era with language and choice of words that I wasn’t sure fit. Other than that, I loved it. Thus, the rating of 4.5-stars rounded to 5-stars.