While spying for Clan Cameron, Brodie Cameron rescues a lass, only to realize it’s Skye–the woman who’d broken his heart. Having beautiful Skye anywhere near him is dangerous because the price on his head is higher than the one on hers and he’s trying to stop a war that could destroy them all. Upon being rescued from kidnappers, Skye finds herself staring into the eyes of the man she once … once loved. She’s grateful to be free but has no idea how she’ll resist the lad who has become a brawny Highlander. Especially since she’s promised to another, in a political marriage forged to strengthen the clans.
Each book in the Highland Pride series is STANDALONE:
* Highland Deception
* Highland Redemption
* Highland Temptation
* Highland Salvation
* Highland Obligation
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This is the second novel by Lori Ann Bailey and I think she has great promise as an author. This series is set in 1640’s Scotland during a time of great turmoil between the Royalists and the Covenanters. I have not read the first book in the series and I think that may be what caused some of my questions about people in this book. There are some things that, to me, just aren’t plain and it makes me question their plausibility. I enjoyed the story, I just didn’t understand some of the character backgrounds and standing within the clan.
Skye MacDonald (or is it, Cameron, because her father was a Cameron farmer) is the niece of the MacDonald Laird. Skye was named for the Isle of Skye where her mother’s family lived. Skye’s mother was the daughter of the previous MacDonald Laird and the sister of the current one. Skye and Brodie were childhood friends and Brodie looked up to Skye’s father very much. The two spent most of their time together and friendship turned to love. Skye loved Brodie with all of her heart, but when Brodie began spending more and more time away, she began to wonder at his commitment to her. Then, when he disappeared during the worst time of her life, she was bereft and when her uncle came to take her back to Isle of Skye with him – she went.
Brodie Cameron is the cousin of the Cameron Laird. I’m not sure what his family ‘job’ as part of the Cameron clan is, but it sounds as if they are farmers. Brodie spent as much of his time as possible with Skye and her family. He loved Skye and felt as if her father was a second father to him. He wanted to marry Skye and make a life with her, but he didn’t feel worthy of her – especially after overhearing a conversation between Skye’s father and her uncle. So, when an opportunity to better himself arose, he took it. He became “The Raven” a spy for the Royalists. Sadly, that caused him to have to be away from home for long periods of time and didn’t allow him to explain those absences to Skye. When he returned from an important mission to find Skye’s father had died and Skye had left, he was inconsolable.
Five years later, Brodie rescues a young woman who is being abducted, only to discover that the woman is Skye. Both of them realize their love has never died and they also realize that neither of them is free to act on that. Argyle, a staunch Covenanter, has put a price on the head of The Raven and Brodie would never expose Skye to that. Skye’s uncle has betrothed her to the third son of another Laird in order to form a political alliance.
Brodie is taking Skye to safety when he discovers that Argyle has also placed a bounty on Skye’s head – dead or alive. He cannot understand why Argyle has placed the bounty, but he will do all in his power to keep her safe. How will they manage to get through that time and keep their hearts intact and not betray their clans and alliances?
This is a lovely story of love and redemption. I hope you will enjoy it.
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4.5 stars
While spying for Clan Cameron, Brodie Cameron rescues a lass who’s being kidnapped, only to realize it’s Skye, the woman who’d broken his heart several years ago. He needs to get her to safety as quickly as possible as there is a price on her head but the price on his head is higher than the one on hers. Skye finds herself staring into the eyes of the man she once loved, Brodie Cameron but he left not to return. She’s grateful to be freed, but she’s promised to another.
A well written, very well paced book that kept my interest all the way through & I was loathe to put it down. The characters are well developed & I was able to relate to them. Set during the same time as the English Civil War the author conveyed the upheaval that was also happening in Scotland. The book also reflects the violence of the time & the rivalry between clans. I’m thoroughly enjoying the series & look forward to more
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Highland Redemption by Lori Ann Bailey
I love this author’s writing style! The author writes a fresh and flawlessly entertaining storyline with several surprising and emotional twist of events you won’t see coming! The characters were wonderfully created with a shroud of mystery to keep you guessing who was aligned with who and what is going to happen next. There are “many” smoking hot passionate love scenes!
There was only one thing that temporarily uprooted me from the story.
I didn’t have issue with the detailed passionate love scenes, only that the several sexual encounters were all fully described, which I felt was over done and it took away the specialness from the first couple times and from the last time they were together. It would have been more satisfying to me to see a notation stating after the first couple of times, they made love over and over all night or something. Then make the last love scene the biggest and best one ever. Just my opinion.
I do recommend this book to everyone who is looking for a fresh, creative, and beautifully written story, with realistic and compelling characters, this book is for you. Note: if your like me, grab a tissue.
Happy reading!
Book: Highland Redemption
By Lori Ann Bailey
Series: Highland Pride, Book #2
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This is the second book in Lori Ann Bailey’s riveting “Highland Pride” series. “Celtic Barb’s Tartan Book Review Blog”
As the strain is even more hostile between the royalists, known as cavaliers and the covenanters. This is the beginning of the first English/Scottish Civil War as there were three in total. Also known as the “War of Three Kingdoms” which involved Scotland, England and Ireland.
Scotland, 1643
In this exhilarating story spymaster Brodie Cameron who rescues a lass while spying for Clan Cameron. Brodie didn’t realize it’s the very lass who broke his heart five years prior with no word. The very reason he entered that the dangerous world of spying. It was to prove he was worthy of Skye’s love. Brodie made this decision after overhearing a conversation by Skye’s Uncle, claiming Brodie was not good enough for Skye. The problem now was he had secrets from Skye. This made Skye suspicious wondering where he was, what he was doing and why he was doing it?
Now since his shattered heart the world thinks he’s a drunkard and womanizer. This is his disguise and cover from his actual spying activities as “The Raven”.
Five years ago Skye Cameron’s heart was broken long ago by the abandonment and desertion by Brodie Cameron. A man who nearly destroyed her after her father’s death. She waited for Brodie to come back to love, support and console her. He never came, no letters, messages or any word at all. Now her Uncle had rescued her and taken her into his clan and home. A place that makes Skye feel so lonely and isolated away from her family and friends. Of course she has heard of Brodie’s womanizing and feels she was just another notch in his kilt.
What Skye doesn’t realize is she is the woman Brodie has always loved and cared for. Now what Sky doesn’t realize is her very life is in danger! However, she is now betrothed to another which is only a political alliance. Yet the Duke of Argyll, who supports the Presbyterian Covenants as the sole religion of Scotland. He puts a bounty on Skyes head dead or alive. He does not want this match to occur no matter what! They may cause her death or a heinous accident. In addition her missing could cause a bloody clan war! This makes no sense to Brodie and can not figure out why Argyll would put such a high price on Skye’s head!
Brodie knows things are different now, as he would never want to put Skies life in danger. As wife, to one of the top spies in Scotland, her very life would be easily forfeit for information. Yet he still wants to know why she never responded to any of his messages. He turned to drink and women trying to mend his shattered heart. As they were childhood friends as he also had worshipped her father too.
Now they are on the run together and in close captivity will old feelings come back? Will the love in their hearts be allowed to be set free? Or will they still face lies and denial? You must read this masterpiece of story that will stay with you long after you have read it. A definite on your keeper shelf!
Fans of the “Highland Pride” series like myself of Lori Ann Bailey’s first book, “Highland Deception”, will be thrilled Lachlan and Maggie appear in this book too. This book has all the elements romance readers love from riveting adventure, mystery, suspense, romance, heartbreak, abduction, betrayal, rescue, miscommunication, attempted murder, treachery, spying,
arranged betrothal , political alliances, secrets, forgiveness, faith, passion, joy and love.
I absolutely loved Highland Redemption as much as I loved from Highland Deception. Again Ms. Bailey pens another phenomenal story that had me weeping, but always cheering this couple on! The type of story that will always stay with me long after I have read it. The setting was magnificent and the dialogue blew me away. There were plots within plots in this story which had me mesmerized. Find my heart racing, yet holding my breath with anticipation not knowing what would happen next!
A phenomenal story from start to finish. A definite read you don’t want to miss! You can read as stand alone book or in series order. I recommend series order as I think it’s just more fun that way. To connect the dots of previous characters or seeing the hero of this book as a secondary character in a previous book. No matter what you chose it is a spectacular read. My favorite reading recipe is true history weaved with a fictional historical romance. Highland Redemption was absolutely brilliant as I can’t recommend it enough!
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This story has excitement, romance, and drama in the form of a war between clans. The hero, Brodie Cameron, is strong and brave, as is his love interest, Skye. The book has the perfect amount of steamy sensuality and a terrific HEA. This is the second book in the series, but it works fine as a standalone.
This is a story of second chance at love. Brodie Cameron, of Clan Cameron is a spy for the Royalists and is trying to find out if his friend Ross MacLean is was working with the Covenanters. Seeing Ross kidnap a lass, he decides to take matters into his own hands and rescues her, from what he thinks is a bargaining tool. What he finds is that he has taken Skye MacDonald, who he had not seen in five years. They had fallen in love and he had intended to marry her when a plethora of misunderstandings occurred. He began working as a spy and had to leave her for weeks at a time. Skye felt he was not coming back and after her father died, she had been placed in the care of her uncle. As Brodie and Skye spend time together as he tries to get her to safety, a lot of old hurts come forth and they both have a hard time accepting the truth… that they still love each other. Full of adventure and emotion, this story will take you on a journey to find that there is sometimes a second chance and you just have to take it! This is the second book in a series and although can be read as a standalone, I do wish I had read the first book beforehand to help with some of the characters. This writer has a lot of promise as she continues to write future stories.
When Brodie steals a hostage from Ross, he doesn’t know it is the woman that broke his heart.
Just the start of an interesting story that has a wonderful plot of anger, suspension, and a love that just won’t die.
Skye is everything Brodie wants, but she is betrothed to another. Brodie is Skye’s history; can she be his present and future or will she honor the betrothal her uncle needs to bond the clans together as he has planned?
I love the way the characters are played against each other. The descriptions are wonderful and you can feel like you are there with them through the trials they go through.