A HIGHLANDER'S TEMPTATION

Author: Sue-Ellen Welfonder ISBN: 9780446195300 10/2009 HISTORICAL Publisher: GRAND CENTRAL
Time Period: 1350 Scotland

Darroc MacConacher spends sleepless nights dreaming of a raven-haired beauty who makes him ache with desire. Then his dream comes true: the lady with her lush curves and fair skin appears shipwrecked on his shores. Darroc is immediately drawn to her strength and beauty, and from the moment she lays eyes on this powerful, broad-shouldered warrior, Lady Arabella MacKenzie knows she'll never want another man. But theirs is a forbidden love. The MacKenzies drove the MacConachers from their lands and destroyed their honor. Now, Darroc can use this sapphire-eyed seductress to shatter his foes. Yet how can he deny the passion that burns between him and Arabella, and ruin the one woman who touches his very soul?

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

I never established a connection with the characters in A HIGHLANDER'S TEMPTATION.  Actually, I found the whole story quite boring.  I try to find at least one positive element to take from my books, but in all honesty, I just can’t put my mark on anything to say this was even a semi-good read.

Arabella is a grown woman who is interested in going to a place called Seal Isles to perform a ritual that will bring her love. With her father’s permission she ends up going, gets shipwrecked (thanks to the black pirates), finds her true love and blah, blah, blah.

That was pretty much it. Darroc is her true love and he gets revenge on the pirates who attacked the ship that she was sailing on. But instead of killing them, they talk it out and he exiles them to a far away island.  It’s all really quite nice, but it leaves no room for any action or drama.  Thus, no interest.

Even the history between the two clans being hated enemies of each other was slow.  There was a story going on about a ghost, what happened to her and how she became a ghost, but that made no sense either.

I’m sorry, but I have to say that A HIGHLANDER'S TEMPTATION was not very tempting to this reviewer.

Sheila Smith