The Secret Gift
Graeme, the Viscount Kintail and the Marquess of Waltham, doesn't trust women who resort to all sorts of trickery to make his acquaintance. Manhattan bookseller Libby's life is transformed when she inherits her mother's Victorian house and an unusual crystal necklace accompanied by a photograph of a man labeled only "Wrath Village, Scotland." Determined to discover her mother's secret, Libby goes to Scotland, where Graeme is ensconced in a remote Highland castle to escape wife wanna-bes and the paparazzi. He isn't thrilled when Libby gets lost and ends up on his property, and he shoos her away with his shotgun. But when Libby discovers that the castle holds the key to her past, there's no keeping her away. Although hundreds of years separate Reding's latest characters from their predecessors in the first two books of her Highland Heroes trilogy--The Pretender(2002) andThe Adventurer[BKL O 15 02]--Reding similarly endows this new generation with courage, resourcefulness, and determination in a deliciously detailed story of an inheritance lost and found.Shelley MosleyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved