Saving Her Highland Traitor

TITLE: Saving Her Highland Traitor

SERIES: Time To Love A Highlander #5

AUTHOR: Maeve Greyson

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THE SYNOPSIS

She wanted a new beginning. Not love or a life with a man about to be executed three hundred years in the past.  Twenty-first century tour guide Mila Carthson and her godson Robbie are excited to launch their first tour of the season in their brand new minibus. They made it through a horrific year of him being bullied and three deaths in the family. Now it’s spring and time for new beginnings. Things can only get better.  But after hours on the road with tourists who act worse than spoiled toddlers, Mila begins to wonder. Surely, a sack lunch surrounded by Glencoe’s beauty will improve the day. She gets the group settled, then she and Robbie climb to higher ground for some badly needed peace. 

While they’re eating, the strangest storm blows in and makes her and Robbie so ill, all they can do is hug it out while the wind and rain batters them. When the weather lifts, everything is different. Not just different, but changed beyond belief. And someone is coming. On horseback. At a thundering, breakneck speed.

The last thing eighteenth century Chieftain Teague MacDonald needs is an unforeseen interruption in his interception of the Campbell clan’s favorite whisky. But his greatest weakness is taking in strays. Especially comely wenches. And this one is that. Fiery as a freshly lit torch, too. So, even though persecuting the bloody Campbells, smuggling, and quietly strengthening the Jacobite cause keeps him busy, this lovely lass is too tempting to ignore. And the longer he is around her, the more he wants her and wishes she would let him save her from whatever terrible secret set her and the lad on the run in the first place. One way or another, he will win her trust. And with any luck, he will win even more.

Mila has been many things. Tour guide. Substitute mother. Grieving friend. But the eighteenth century transforms her into something she never expected: a woman in love like never before. Except she knows Teague is going to be executed soon. She read about it while researching his castle’s remains back in the twenty-first century. Somehow, she has to keep him alive. But can the history books and destiny be rewritten?

THE REVIEW

Mila Carthson runs a tour company in Scotland with her godson Robbie. On one of their tours, they are swept away from 21st Scotland to the year 1722. Braced with her knowledge of Scotland and it’s history and Robbie’s incredible mind for math and science, they set out to survive in their new surroundings. 

Chieftain Teague MacDonald stumbles upon Mila and Robbie as he is making his way back to his castle. He offers them safety and brings them back with him. While Teague tries to learn more about the strangers and unravel their stories, Mila remembers that Teague is killed for treason within the year! As they get to know each other, feelings develop and they find themselves in love and shortly married. Mila and Teague try to work out a way to save Teague from capture and imminent death. 

Some time travel stories frustrate me because the ‘traveler’ spends so much time upset about their circumstances that it takes up most for the book! I appreciated that Robbie has a notion about what happened to them right off the bat and that Mila doesn’t dwell in her misfortune. When she tells Teague about his future, he doesn’t freak out and cast her aside, although he does clam up and leave, leading Mila to panic and run away. But, of course, he goes after her and all is well. 

This was a sweet, quick read; just enough adventure and sexy steam to hold my attention. (Some felt a bit cheesy, but Teague was so romantic that I didn’t mind a bit!)

TROPES

Historical Romance, Stuart Era, Scotland, Gamma Hero, Highland Warrior Hero, Protective Hero, Jealous/Possessive Hero, Titled Hero, Experienced Heroine, Independent Heroine, Fling to Love, Hero Falls Hard, Suspense/Danger/Murder, Time Travel, Outdoor Steam, Bath/Shower Steam, The Garden Tryst, Wall Steam, Four Star, Two Flame 

QUOTES

“I have been so lonely for so verra long,” she whispered, her lips brushing across his. “It has worn me weary.” “Seek yer ease with me, m’lady. Let loneliness trouble ye no more.”

“Ye are mine,” he bellowed over the wind. Grim satisfaction filled him as she stared up at him with her luscious, kiss-reddened lips barely parted. “Do ye hear me, woman? Ye. Are. Mine.” “I hear ye,” she said so softly that he read the words in the movements of her mouth rather than heard them.

“Ye have made me love ye. I canna lose ye now.” He caught and held her, closing his eyes and burying his face into her silky curls. “I love ye with a fury, my precious dove. Nothing will ever part us. I swear.”

HistoricalRomance, StuartEra, Scotland, GammaHero, HighlandWarriorHero, ProtectiveHero, Jealous/PossessiveHero, TitledHero, ExperiencedHeroine, IndependentHeroine, FlingtoLove, HeroFallsHard, Suspense/Danger/Murder, TimeTravel, OutdoorSteam, Bath/ShowerSteam, TheGardenTryst, WallSteam, FourStar, TwoFlame