In the final volume of Amanda Scott’s engrossing Highland series, a Scottish heiress falls in love with a man who seems to have been plucked from her dreams.
Penelope MacCrichton watches the tall, broad-shouldered figure walk toward her across the mist-shrouded loch. Is he a phantom, a restless, sensual spirit fated to live only in her secret fantasies? Or is he the seductive, brooding stranger she meets later in London…who may not be a stranger at all?
Michael Mingary, Earl of Kintyre, is enchanted by the reserved Highland heiress, even as he’s haunted by unsettling dreams of a ghostly Scottish castle. Desperate to save his family legacy, he strikes a bargain with the Campbells—a clan with whom he has an old score to settle. But when Penelope makes a bold counter-proposal, he’s tempted beyond all measure. Surrendering to passion, Michael and Penelope gamble on a love that holds the promise of the future—a love that could be the fulfillment of all their dreams.
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Hott Review:
A great finale!
What I liked: I liked how Highland Spirits pulled the stories together and made a new and fun story from them. I really liked Pinkie and Michael. They are both great people and I found them interesting.
If you’d have asked me around the middle of the book, I’d have said it was ok. But, looking back I can honestly say it’s a really good book. There is so much imagery and history contained in Highland Spirits that you can’t help but feel immersed. I learned so much about what London it’s living conditions were while reading! I think it shocked me more that I didn’t know these facts previously.
Overall, I found Highland Spirits to be an extremely romantic book laced with a captivating history lesson. Plus, there was plenty of adventure.
What I didn’t like: I really did like Highland Spirits but there were two problems for me. First, there were a LOT of characters to keep track of. They kept getting jumbled for me and I had to look back to see why they were important. The second thing I didn’t like was the vernacular. I had times following the conversations at times.
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Author: | Amanda Scott | ||
Source: | I purchased Highland Treasure on December 2, 2013 when it was on sale for $2 | ||
Publisher & Date: | March 26th 2013 by Open Road Media Romance (first published October 1st 1999 by Zebra) | ||
Genre: | Historical Romance, Suspense | ||
ISBN: | 0821763431 (ISBN13: 9780821763438) | ||
Pages: | 382 | ||
Grade: | A | ||
Ages: | 18+ | ||
Steam: | Adult | Just one or two consummation scenes. | ||
Setting: | The Scottish Highlands, November 1753 | ||
Series: | Highland #4 |
Highland Fling |
Highland Secrets |
Highland Treasure |
Highland Spirits |
Author Bio:
As a child, Amanda Scott was a model for O’Connor Moffatt in San Francisco (now Macy’s). She was also a Sputnik child, one of those selected after the satellite went up for one of California’s first programs for gifted children. She remained in that program through high school. After graduate school, she taught for the Salinas City School District for three years before marrying her husband, who was then a captain in the Air Force. They lived in Honolulu for a year, then in Papillion, Nebraska, for seven. Their son was born in Nebraska. They have lived in northern California since 1980.
Scott grew up in a family of lawyers, and is descended from a long line of them. Her father was a three-term District Attorney of Monterey County before his death in 1955 at age 36. Her grandfather was City Attorney of Salinas for 36 years after serving two terms as District Attorney, and two of her ancestors were State Supreme Court Justices (one in Missouri, the other the first Supreme Court Justice for the State of Arkansas). One brother, having carried on the Scott tradition in the Monterey County DA’s office, is now a judge. The other is an electrician in Knoxville, TN, and her sister is a teacher in the Sacramento area.
The women of Amanda Scott’s family have been no less successful than the men. Her mother was a child actress known as Baby Lowell, who performed all over the west coast and in Hollywood movies, and then was a dancer with the San Francisco Opera Ballet until her marriage. Her mother’s sister, Loretta Lowell, was also a child actress. She performed in the Our Gang comedies and in several Loretta Young movies before becoming one of the first women in the US Air Force. Scott’s paternal grandmother was active in local and State politics and served as president of the California State PTA, and her maternal grandmother was a teacher (and stage mother) before working for Monterey County. The place of women in Scott’s family has always been a strong one. Though they married strong men, the women have, for generations, been well educated and encouraged to succeed at whatever they chose to do.
Amanda Scott’s first book was OMAHA CITY ARCHITECTURE, a coffee-table photo essay on the historical architecture of Omaha, written for Landmarks, Inc. under her married name as a Junior League project. Others took the photos; she did the research and wrote the text on an old Smith-Corona portable electric. She sold her first novel, THE FUGITIVE HEIRESS—likewise written on the battered Smith-Corona in 1980. Since then, she has sold many more books, but since the second one she has used a word processor and computer. Twenty-five of her novels are set in the English Regency period (1810-1820). Others are set in 15th-century England and 14th- through 18th-century Scotland, and three are contemporary romances. Many of her titles are currently available at bookstores and online.
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