Highlander’s Wicked Seduction

Wow! I absolutely loved this story. It was such a pleasure to read. It holds your attention from the very beginning all the way to the end of the book. Great, fast paced, action packed and full of adventure, suspense; and of course, sweet and sometimes steamy romance. The book kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the story, wondering how things were going to turn out for Diana and Kentigern. The characters are wonderful, well developed and engaging. You really feel like you get to know them throughout the story. I was thrilled to see that Diana and Kentigern had a sweet, happily ever after ending, and I loved the epilogue. If you’re looking for a really good book to read that’s both exciting and full of romance, I recommend that you definitely read this one! Great job, Lydia Kendall!

I liked reading this book. It is very entertaining. The lead female character Diana is twenty and has whimsical spirit about her. She is not opposed to conforming to social rules but she likes to be herself in her home. She is bright, intelligent and kind. She is devoted to her family which now only consists of her brother Charles. When Charles tells her, she is betrothed in marriage to a man she met the night before, she becomes enraged. She cares not for the gentleman he has chosen and refuses to marry him. Charles feels she needs a firm hand to settle her down; she needs to grow up. She feels betrayed and resentful she had no say in the matter. She plots her escape and runs. It is night, raining and Diana is freezing. She tries to cut through a field to get to the nearest farm house for shelter and comes across a stone wall. She and her horse try to jump but the mud causes the horse to slip and Diana is thrown to the ground unconscious. Another rider is passing by and sees an abandoned horse. He has two minds to stay and help or go on his way. He stops and finds Diana in a heap on the ground bloody, bruised and unconscious. He gets her and her horse to the nearest inn and has a doctor fetched. Per the doctor she is lucky. No broken bones. She has a gash on her forehead that will leave a scar. The lead male character Laird of Braewood, Kentigern Forbes waits for her to wake. When she does, she has no memory save Kentigern’s face. She cannot remember anything, who she is, where she is from, where she was going. Nothing. Kentigern takes her to his castle in Scotland to recuperate. Diana and Kentigern become attracted to each other and eventually one thing leads to another. In the meantime, Kentigern’s sister Heather has arrived from London with a broken heart. Diana knows something is wrong but Heather will not open up, not even to her brother. Back in England Charles is frantic trying to find Diana and is helped by her betrothed George Orton. Charles understands why Diana ran off and breaks the engagement. He realizes how wrong he was. But George insists to accompany Charles in his search of Diana. In the beginning of the story, George comes off as a slimy, haughty, entitled, elitist snob. Charles remembers a different George growing up. He was not so jaded. They finally find a clue to where Diana is and head to Forbes Castle. That particular day Diana starts to get flashbacks but tries to resist remembering. She does not want to leave Scotland nor Kentigern. For the first time she feels at home. It feels right to her. That evening Charles enters the castle and suddenly all the memories flood back to Diana. At first, she denies knowing him. She sees Charles face is sincere and loving and tells him to go away. She is angry at him for what he did. Then George appears behind him, Heather screams and faints, Diana goes ballistic wanting to know what he is doing there and how could Charles bring him. Kentigern is on the defensive and gets between the women and the men. As Charles and George wait for Diana, George continues to belittle women and their hysterics. Secretly Charles is glad his sister is not going to marry him. Charles still believes George is a good man and only needs a good woman to see him settle. But it will not be Diana. Eventually, Diana and Kentigern appear in the study. Mostly Charles and Diana exchange words. Charles opens his heart and tells her how sorry he is and that the engagement is off. He will never force her to marry against her will again. Kentigern offers them to stay at the castle but George feels offended, refuses and leaves. Little does anyone suspect that George is familiar to more that Charles and Diana. Now the author presents George in a negative light in the beginning and justly so. But later on, things go crazy, a kidnapping, a baby, and a furious brother happen. Later in the story like magic George is a different person. I feel for the sake of the reader if the transition that George went through was a little more thought out. The author makes it clear why he was the way he was and why he became the way he became. It was just too sudden. I feel a little more time devoted to George’s character would have helped smooth the transition without him looking like there was something wrong with him and could not be trusted. Anyway, it is an action-packed romance full of love, affection and hot chemistry between Diana and Kentigern. I did like reading it.

This wonderfully written storyline and well detailed characters made this book a very enjoyable and entertaining read!