Author: annamarkland
Are the answers blowing in the wind?An amusing and heartwarming tale of mistaken identity, a derelict windmill, and a wee lad who eats like a horse.In order to get the hated Lockies to agree to refurbish the derelict windmill that sits on the border between their lands, Spenser McDool must wed Jane, the Lockie laird’s daughter. The successful processing of a bumper harvest depends on it. He’s … bumper harvest depends on it. He’s never met Jane (or so he believes) but has fallen hard for a scullery maid named Jennie who visits the mill.Jane disguises herself as a servant…
Dieter Von Wolfenberg burns to rid his homeland of the tyrannical Holy Roman Emperor. A plot to kidnap the Emperor’s wife goes awry and her English lady in waiting is stolen away instead.When the daughter of King Henry I is betrothed to the Holy Roman Emperor, Blythe FitzRam is forced to travel to the foreign court to serve her mistress. Isolated and disdainful of all things German, she is … nevertheless drawn to her captor.more
Celebrate Hogmanay in true Scottish style with this heartwarming Highlander romance.Book 4 in the best selling “Clash of the Tartans” series has arrived! Read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited! Secret tunnels, benign ghosts, and ruined castles—the ingredients of a mystery. Right? Except Kilty Party is a romantic comedy. Shaw Drummond and Caitlin Blair balk at King William’s command they marry to end … balk at King William’s command they marry to end an age-old feud between the two neighboring clans. As luck would have it, they unexpectedly fall in love at first sight, but other family members seem determined to…
Sir Barr de Montbryce strives to prevent the assassination of a prominent archbishop, but the assassins believe they are carrying out King Henry’s wishes. Hollis de Moreville suspects her brother of plotting to murder Thomas Becket. As a woman alone, she can do little to stop him. Joining forces with Barr de Montbryce brings her more than just an unexpected ally.
Swan FitzRam and Rodrick de Montbryce share a common ancestor four generations in the past. The powers that be in the Church refuse to sanction their marriage. Rodrick must abandon the woman he loves or forfeit his earldom. A poignant love story set against the turmoil of civil strife as King Stephen and Prince Henry Plantagenet fight for the throne of England.
Faith was fostered by the Pendrays after her father was executed for treason. She’s infatuated with the family’s son, Gray, though she knows he’s too highborn for her — but when he returns home after years away, she can’t help longing for him…
Only lies can keep her children alive…Alexandre is a powerful Norman nobleman haunted by memories of a troubled past. He has sworn never to marry.Elayne is a Scottish noblewoman masquerading as the nursemaid of her own children, sent to Normandy by King David as good faith hostages. Neither she nor her children are who they purport to be and only lies can keep them alive.The struggle for the … struggle for the throne of England between Stephen and Maud in the 12th century provides the historical backdrop for this story.more
The escaped assassins who kidnap Jewel Pendray must never find out her father was responsible for their capture.Having recently eluded execution in Holland for a crime he didn’t commit, Garnet Barclay seeks to avoid trouble at a time of religious turmoil in Scotland.However, how’s a man named Garnet supposed to ignore the plight of a woman named Jewel?
Once bitten, twice shy. Betrayed by his late first wife, Gallien will never give his heart to a woman again; however, he has a duty to remarry and sire heirs for the Montbryce earldom. Peridotte has long fancied herself married to a handsome Angevin nobleman. She fears the cold, arrogant Norman to whom she finds herself betrothed when political intrigue forces them into an arranged marriage. … Afraid to admit their growing feelings for each other, they appear doomed to a life of resentment and unrequited love. But there’s a more insidious, hidden threat that could cost Peridotte her life.more
There are no secrets that time does not reveal. Sarah is the daughter of a man who signed the death warrant of Charles I, a secret she must keep from the man she finds herself drawn to. Munro is a Scot from a staunchly royalist family. He is determined to discover why Sarah refuses to acknowledge the alchemy between them. Once revealed, will the secret destroy them?