She was like a living flame, an all-consuming fire, lighting up the way so he could find everything he’d lost!Book 3 Heart of Stone is now available. Read for Free with Kindle Unlimited!When widowed Nicholas MacPherson, Earl of Rothbury, returns from a two-year pilgrimage and finds himself in desperate need of a governess for his son, the last person he wants to see at his door is Julianna … he wants to see at his door is Julianna Feathers, the lass he had loved since he was a child servant in her father’s castle. He doesn’t want her back in his life, but his son needs her. Soon, Nicholas realizes that he needs her, too. Her familiar smiles and the ease he feels when they speak – even to argue – becomes harder to resist. But he doesn’t trust love. Her love. Still, when she stirs the rubble in search of his heart, the heart she once knew, he is helpless to stop her.
Julianna Feathers once lived the life of the privileged, but that was before the Scots attacked her castle and killed everyone in it. Before her father’s debts left her penniless and without title. Before she married a monster. Dreams of the love of her youth gave her strength to run, to free herself and find him. She knows him as William Stone. She let him go once because she was a coward. But she has changed. She has grown up, and she wants him back…until she meets him and decides she doesn’t like the earl with his new name and the diamond-hard set of his eyes against her. But she sees him beneath the rocks and rubble and she resolves to help him find his way out. Falling in love with him all over again is the easy part. Being torn from his arms by an enemy from their past is something else entirely.
Will their love survive?
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Julianna is determined to find the one man she truly loved, William Stone. Going from a life of privilege to a life of servitude has made Julianna grow up and realize what’s important in her life. When a governess job opens up for Lord Rothbury Julianna goes to apply hoping to find William working there also. What she finds is not what she expects. William is none other than Nicholas, Lord Rothbury. When Nicholas sees Julianna he is stunned and wants her gone. He can’t have her around as she is the person he has loved since he was a child. He does not want her in his life stirring up old feelings and memories. This was such a wonderful story. I felt so sorry for Nicholas and Julianna we were pulled apart by circumstance beyond their control. There was so much to this story. This is also the third book in a series but also a stand alone. I would definitely recommend this book and also the others.
Nicholas MacPherson, Earl of Rothbury, returns home from a two-year pilgrimage and finds his son without a governess. His son does nothing but scream and cry as he sees his father, wearing a long wild beard, that turns the castle into a ear-piercing nightmare. Now he needs to find a governess as soon as possible as nothing calms his son. Julianna Feathers once lived the life of privilege, but that was before the Scots raided and killed everyone in her father’s castle. After she lost everything, she married a cruel monster of a man that abused her and treated her as a servant. Julianna dreamed of her former love, known as William Stone, and that gave her strength to survive. After the death of her husband, she recovered in a convent and made her living by writing and delivering messages for clients. She learns of a governess position and decided to try for the position. But as life would have it, a cruel turn of events, happen again. Paula Quinn has provided us with a page turning adventure that grows with each page. What a wonderful read.
A Heart of Stone. Can it be turned into something else? Will it ever love again?
A true heart wrenching story that adds another amazing addition to the Heart os Highlands series. Paula Quinn has given so much in this story that brings alive two people that knew each other as children and had suffered so much in their lives.
Her father had been Governor of Berwick, before Robert the Bruce’s men seized the castle and slain her father and all the people. She was working to earn enough to find William Stone, her father’s servent. His last words to her had been “Julianna, I have loved you my whole life. I will never love anyone but you. Do not sentence me to such a lonely life.” This spoken to her when she had taken santuary at the abbey and she had refused to go with him. She was to marry a man of means.
Now in a trick of fate, as she looked for him she took a job as a governess to a child because she thought she would find word of William.
Yes she found him. Broken, scarred, untrusting and not wanting her back in his life.
A journey of the soul that can sometimes be mended with love and care. But would they ever find their way?
Be still my heart. Yes, a journey well taken.
Julianna Feathers left the convent after her abusive husband died there. She’s earning a living by writing and delivering messages. There is a possibility that this latest message could be a chance at a good job. Also she is hoping to find the one man she has loved her whole life, the one she sent away.
Nicholas MacPhearson has had a very hectic few years. He found his brothers and lost his wife. He did not handle that well. Now he is home and his son is screamin in fear of him all the time.
This is a very exciting adventure. The characters are strong and loveable. You will fall for them on the first page. Lots of twists and turns and family complications give us plenty to enjoy.
There is a lot of back story that comes in previous books in the series. I have read them so found this more enjoyable than I think it would be on it’s own.
I loved it.