Review: Entertaining Romance with a Scottish twist.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2012
Meghan Innes was the older teenage daughter of Oengus Innes, head of a small clan in Scotland.  He was a rough, severe man, having become more so after his wife and two sons died and no matter how Meghan tried, she could not live up to his demands.  After her mother died, Oengus removed anything from the premises that  resembled civilized living and taught his daughter to oversee raising of the crops and sheep and various tasks normally performed by a son.At this time King Edward ruled England and he had removed King John of Scotland for failing him.  Then Robert Bruce of Scotland declared himself King of Scotland and attempted to gather all of the Scottish clans behind him to fight King Edward and win Scotland's freedom.  However, Oengus supported the head of the Comyn clan who denied Bruce as King, claiming a right to the Scottish throne.  And such is the setting for this romantic adventure which encompassed Meghan falling in love with Black William, not knowing he was a cousin to Robert Bruce.  Black Williams had a reputation for taking advantage of women, but Meghan was swayed by his looks, his charm, and he became the knight of her heart.  He intended to ask her father for her hand in marriage, but when Meghan approached her father about that, he told her that William was a Bruce and he would not allow it.  He had been pressing Meghan hard to marry so he would have a grandson to lead the clan.While raiding sheep from the English, Oengus was captured and Meghan went to Robert Bruce pledging their clan to him if he helped her get her father released.  William was sent with her to London to talk to King Edward and the rest of the tale is filled with an off and on again passionate romance, daring and dangerous escapes, wars, and treachery with enough Scottish brogue thrown in to make it live for the reader.  It is a page turner and I liked it.  I recommend it for interesting, fast, light reading.