Review: Liked it!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2011
This is a simple romance set in 11th Century Scotland; part of a trilogy I think, it's short, about 100 pages.  I read it in a couple hours.Breac is hunky and righteous and rescues Aigneis while he is on a desperate journey for herbs to heal his dying sister; beautiful and mysterious Aigneis' evil husband, unhappy with her inability to give him children, orders his henchmen to drag her into the woods and brutally murder her.Thus begins their journey, his to save his sister, hers to escape from her past.  They come together with a fragile tenderness that is gripping.  The author's voice lacks polish and bobbles the dialect, but that didn't distract from a straightforward plot, with a mildly magical element.  I liked very much that the story was simple and only about the man and woman; they don't deny their growing romance with contrived hysterics or misplaced honor.  The tension is created by their very real anguish and their struggle to be together in spite of it.The steamy bits are well placed and hot, not too graphic but satisfyingly detailed.  Overall, well-told, romance that I highly recommend.