The Highlander
Takes a Bride
Scottish Highlander #3
Scottish Highlander #3
By: Lynsay Sands
Releasing July 28, 2015
A bold, seductive laird meets his passionate match in a scintillating Highland romance from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands.
Sword fighting, swearing, and riding astride come naturally to Saidh Buchanan. Simpering and holding her tongue-definitely not. Raised alongside seven boisterous brothers, Saidh has little interest in saddling herself with a husband…until she glimpses the new Laird MacDonnell bathing naked in the loch. Though she’s far from a proper lady, the brawny Highlander makes Saidh feel every inch a woman.
She has an angel’s looks, a warrior’s temper, and seeks out his kisses with wanton eagerness. Little wonder that Greer is intrigued by his comely guest. When reckless desire overtakes them, he’s more than willing to make an honest woman of her. But Saidh is the target of a hidden enemy, and Greer faces the battle of his life…to safeguard the woman he wants above all others.
“A lady does no’ climb trees.”
“Ye’ve told me that three times now, lad,” Saidh responded dryly, shifting
her foot up to the next branch and hauling herself upward.
“Aye, but ye’re still doing it, so I thought mayhap ye had no’ heard
me,” Alpin said sharply. When she didn’t respond to that, he added, “I could
climb up there to pick the apples and throw them down, ye ken.”
“Then there would be no one to catch them,” Saidh pointed out.
“I was thinking mayhap ye could stay below and catch them, as a lady
should,” he said, sounding much put upon.
Saidh plucked the apple she’d been climbing to and glanced down to see
where the boy was before dropping it in his direction. Once Alpin had caught
it, and set it with the others they’d already gathered, she started to climb
down and asked, “Just how old are ye, Alpin?”
“Nine,” he said proudly.
“Hmmm,” she muttered, easing down another branch. “Ye act ninety.”
“Laird MacDonnell says the same thing,” Alpin announced with disgust.
“Then we are in agreement,” Saidh said cheerfully, easing down another
branch.
“I suspect the two o’ ye would agree on a lot o’ things,” Alpin said
sounding annoyed.
“I suspect yer right,” Saidh said with a laugh and jumped to the
ground. She took a moment to brush her hands together, then released her skirt
from where she’d caught it up and stuck it through her belt for the climb, then
beamed at the boy and said, “Is that no’ nice?”
“Nay,” Alpin assured her heavily. “I’m thinking ’tis a bad thing.”
Her eyebrows rose in surprise. “Why is that?”
“Because ye both just go
about doing as ye wish with little regard fer how a laird or lady should
behave,” he said firmly. “Someone needs to take the two o’ ye in hand and teach
ye—What the devil are ye doing now?” he interrupted himself to ask with dismay
when Saidh moved over to the apples, caught her skirt up and knelt to begin
placing the apples in the bag-type affair she’d made of her skirt.
LYNSAY SANDS is the nationally bestselling author of the
Argeneau/Rogue Hunter vampire series, as well as numerous historicals and
anthologies. She’s been writing stories since grade school and considers
herself incredibly lucky to be able to make a career out of it. Her hope is
that readers can get away from their everyday stress through her stories, and
if there’s occasional uncontrollable fits of laughter, that’s just a big bonus.
Please visit her on the web at www.lynsaysands.net.
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