Moning maintains her lighthearted tone through Lisa's adaptation to the 14th century and through most of Lisa and Cin's courtship. Lisa finds herself falling in love not only with Cin but also with a lovely, unspoiled Scotland. Her skirmishes with Cin as she tries to outwit him and find his hiding place lend an entertaining dimension to their courtship. The problems with The Highlander's Touch begin once Lisa realizes there is no easy way home probably no way home at all and has to confront her grief over not only her mother's death but her father's earlier death. They cannot be assigned a value.
Feelings are .
By labeling a feeling wrong, you force yourself to ignore that feeling. And so on, at some length. The result, at least for me, was that Cin's attraction quotient fell sharply, never to recover. Even so, had the author been able to reestablish the tone of the first two-thirds of the book, I might have overlooked her slip into psychobabble. Unfortunately, the magical solutions that resolve Lisa's and Cin's problems were so improbable, so unlikely, that I rapidly lost interest in their ultimate resolution.