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?
Highland Jewel (The House of Pendray Book 3)
By annamarkland
Another great adventure into the Scottish Highlands!
Anna Markland nicely blended her two main characters Jewel Pendray and Garnet Barclay into an intriguing action-packed Scottish tale. HIGHLAND JEWEL is her 3rd story of THE HOUSE OF PENDRAY series. This one really pleased me because the first chapters really grabbed my attention from the first page until the very end. This author never disappoints me! If you love a story filled with romance, danger and adventure filled with lots of twists and turns related to church matters and disagreements for that period of time, then you are in for a treat. The story is well paced to keep readers interested in following the heroine and hero’s during their perilous journey. We meet again, some characters from her previous stories in this series such as Hannah, Morgan, Munro and Sarah.
This time it’s Jewel Pendray and Garnet Barclay’s own love story! Garnet wants to avoid trouble because of the religious turmoil set in Scotland. When he meets Jewel, he knows that he’s in real trouble. So when she is kidnapped, Garnet will realize what she means to him and go to her rescue. What follows will bring them closer together and offer them a chance to live happily ever after.
Lovers of Anna Markland’s books, will not be disappointed!
Jewel Pendray is really looking forward to the adventure of traveling up to Edinburgh with her brother. If she’s lucky they will go on from there into the highlands. There are places there important to her parents and she longs to see them. They are taking an escort of her father’s Highlanders with them but that doesn’t mean they will always be safe. These are dangerous times with a lot of unrest.
Garnet Barclay has escaped from Dutch prison with the help of a man he doesn’t really know. Now they are back on Scottish soil and closer to home. But the more time he spends with his rescuer and his cronies the less he like them.
This is a very dangerous adventure for all our wonderful characters. The troubles they will face will soon proove just how strong they are.
Although this is part of a series you can easily read it on it’s own, but it will tempt you to get the rest of the series.
As usual with this author a fabulous story that I couldn’t put down.
I loved it.
Escaped assassins who kidnap Jewel must never find out her father was behind. Garnet is one of the escapees, and he can’t ignore the irony of his name and hers.
This book was really beautifully written and love Anna writing style and how she puts so mush effort and love into all her stories and characters!!
This is a captivating, romantic and interesting story. Garnet is charming, fierce, sweet, caring and protective. Jewel is determined, strong, brave, excitable and cheeky. Jewel and her brother Gray go on a trip to the highlands to explore the places that are important to their parents. On the way they stop at a cousin’s house where they meet Garnet. Both Garnet and Jewel are fascinated by each other’s names, and think it might be fate that they meet. When Jewel and Gray continue on the journey, Garnet joins them. Garnet and Jewel fall in love along the way, even with one thing after another threatening their future. This has such a great storyline and wonderful characters that I could not put it down.
I received a copy of this book from the author and am voluntarily reviewing it.
Scotland, 1681 How can you not adore a heroine named Jewel, for the Scottish crown jewels her mother had stolen. Yes another great tale not to miss! Thus she wanted an adventure of her own before she married, hopefully to someone she could love. Her parents allow her to be escorted by her brother on a visit to Edinburgh, but she ends up getting more than she bargained for in Garnet Barclay. Yes, they were destined I have to say!
Anna Markland weaves a story full of the history of the times and political turnmoil in this moving medieval romance. Garnet is trying to avoid the unrest in Scotland, but with Jewel and the emotions she incites, there is even more to worry about!
Prepare to be swept away and have your heart tugged with many winding roads to this couple’s happy ever after!!! Although part of a series, this can be read as a standalone, but you really want to read them all!! I highly recommend.
SETTING: Kilmer, Ayrshire, Scotland, Spring 1681. The conflict between the Presbyterians and King Charles II has been suppressed on the surface by the Dragoon’s killing Richard Cameron, but underwater there still boils hatred, enmity and murder, all of which are in direct conflict with the Christian values the “Covenanters” supposedly hold dear. Our heroine and hero are sucked into the vortex these subterfuges and intrigues form as they drag innocent victims into the swirls.
Jewel and her brother Gray are 2 of the children of Colonel Morgan Pendray, Earl of Glenheath and his wife Hannah, who had their own story in an earlier book. Jewel and Gray set off for Edinburgh with an entourage of soldiers under the employ of their father. Their intent is to visit many of the places about which they have heard all their lives—-places of great importance in their parents lives and in the history of Scotland. They arrive in Edinburgh to stay with a relative, and find themselves in close company with some cold and mysterious neighbors sharing the other half of their cousin’s house-Covenanter’s related to Richard Cameron, whose death burns them deeply. Visitors recently returned from the Netherlands are staying with that family-one of whom forms an attachment for Jewel.
How Jewel and Gray are swept up into the violence of the Covenanters (yes, an oxymoronic situation) is the jist of our story.
CRITIQUE: Ms. Markland teases apart threads from the previous stories and from them weaves an entirely fresh story! Bits of history involving the Presbyterians and their revolt after King Charles fails to honor the Covenant are the scaffolding upon which the story is woven. I learned much about that time period and the violence of the Covenanters. (The end notes were also helpful in dissecting what was history from that which was the author’s imagination). The result was a wonderful story with its roots in history, providing a learning experience along with the pleasure of a novel.
As with her previous books, I found myself quickly pulled into the story, and found Jewel, Gray and the new character Garnet quite easy to like. The storylines are unique, and keep one guessing about what will happen next—and are not predictable! This book will be enjoyed by those who enjoy English and Scottish history, love stories and the happy marriage of both as is found herein.
I received a free copy of the book. My review is voluntary and the goal is to help others decide if this book might be of interest to them, as it certainly was to me.
Wow…What an adventure! Highland Jewel by Anna Markland is book 3 in The House of Pendray series. Though in a series this book can be read as a standalone. Anna has such an amazing way of taking you on the most exciting medieval adventures that you hold your breath from one page until the next. Her political writing for the time is so spot on and I just love when I learn facts about history as well as reading a great romance. This story has emeralds, a fire, deception, child labor, orphaned, a puppy named Aristotle, true friends, protection, murderers, handfasting, kidnapping, loss of memory, falsely accused, family love, acceptance and love. I highly recommend you read this book!
***This book was gifted to me and I am voluntarily reviewing.
Got really involved in this book. Good plot, good romance, and I loved the hero and heroine. I received an ARC of this book.