Hero in the Highlands

by Suzanne Enoch

Overview

In 1812, when English soldier Gabriel Forrester learns he has inherited a Scottish highlands title and estate, the last thing he wants to do is give up the battlefield-until he meets raven-eyed Fiona Blackstock. But Fiona, like any good Highlander, despises the English. As the two enter a heated battle of wills, an unexpected passion blazes into a love as fierce as the Highlands themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250390073
Publisher:	Griffin
Publication date:	10/04/2016
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Suzanne Enoch has written more than thirty Regency romances, including the New York Times bestseller After the Kiss. The author of nine series of novels, including the Scandalous Brides series and the Scandalous Highlanders series, she has twice been a finalist for RT Book Reviews' Historical Romance of the Year Award.

Flora MacDonald was born in Scotland and trained as a classical actress in London before moving to the United States. As an actress she has appeared on and off Broadway with the Royal National Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company and on television. Her unusually wide range of voices can be heard in audiobooks, cartoons, movies, and in radio broadcasts all over the world.

Editorial Reviews

★ 08/29/2016
Enoch (Some Like It Scot) produces another bold Highland fling in this stirring historical romance. Maj. Gabriel Forrester is enjoying the Duke of Wellington’s 1812 campaign near Salamanca in Spain when he receives the unexpected news that he is now the Duke of Lattimer, a title that comes with a 10,000-acre estate in Scotland. The estate was originally owned by Scottish lairds, and it’s been cursed ever since it was taken over by the hated English. He arrives to find the place run by black-eyed Scottish spitfire Fiona Blackstock, who despises all Englishmen. She predictably goes weak in the knees in Gabriel’s presence, disguising it by raging at his English arrogance—which is a cover for his own developing attraction to her. Gradually, they manage to overcome all the barriers that separate them. Enoch alternates Fiona’s spunky feminism with Gabriel’s down-to-earth pragmatism in this adventurous tale of sex and war, and Gabriel proves himself a dashing expert at both. With colorful secondary characters, judicious lashings of Scots dialect, and lush summertime Highland landscapes, Enoch creates a heady romantic atmosphere that’s sure to captivate the genre’s eager audience. Agent: Nancy Yost, Nancy Yost Literary. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"The latest from the ever-popular Enoch is steamy and bubbling with humor, a scrumptious tale to begin her No Ordinary Hero series." - Booklist Starred Review on Hero in the Highlands

"Enoch produces another bold Highland fling in this stirring historical romance...with colorful secondary characters, judicious lashings of Scots dialect, and lush summertime Highland landscapes, Enoch creates a heady romantic atmosphere that’s sure to captivate the genre’s eager audience." - Publishers Weekly Starred Review on Hero in the Highlands

"A thrilling and sexy story." - Kirkus Starred Review on Hero in the Highlands

"A romance not to be missed." - BookPage on Hero in the Highlands

"One of my very favorite authors." —Julia Quinn

From the Publisher

★ 2016-08-22
A career soldier inherits a dukedom and a crumbling Scottish castle. When he travels there to confront the recalcitrant steward, he is unexpectedly captivated by both the place and the steward's sister.Maj. Gabriel Forrester finds out in the same breath that he is great-nephew to the Duke of Lattimer, that the duke has died, and that he, Gabriel, is the only living heir. He’s forced to leave the Spanish battlefield to sort out his unwanted inheritance, especially his estate in Scotland. When Gabriel reaches the estate, he finds that the steward went missing four years ago, and his fiery sister, Fiona Blackstock, is running things at Lattimer Castle. English soldiers are none too popular at Lattimer, but Gabriel is used to facing down enemies. “This is my first time being in hostile territory that I actually own,” he says. In addition to suspicious tenants and servants, Gabriel must unravel the reason Lattimer has failed to turn a profit in recent years. Is it the overly large household staff, all kinsmen hired by Fiona to save them from poverty? Is it the loyal Maxwell clan, who wants to sabotage Lattimer’s holdings so their own clan chief can buy the property for a good price? Gabriel has every reason to suspect Fiona of being sympathetic to the mischief-makers who have been stealing the estate’s sheep, damaging its irrigation equipment, and putting its flour mill out of commission. But he soon sees that Fiona will be loyal to anyone who puts the interests of the estate’s tenants first—even if that person is English. Enoch’s (Some Like it Scot, 2015, etc.) new No Ordinary Hero series promises to be compelling from beginning to end, if this first installment is any indication. A thrilling and sexy story about the joy that can be found in doing one’s duty.

Kirkus Reviews