Listed below are wonderful Scotland romances consistently found on lists of the best loved romance novels of all time. 
The time periods vary, but the natural beauty of Scotland's terrain, its colorful history, and people of proud Scottish heritage are prevalent in them all.

Jill Barnett

BEWITCHING. 10-1993. ISBN:0671778633. Regency Period. Joyous MacQuarrie has bewitched the most serious and handsome nobleman in all of England. No one can believe that Alec, duke of Belmore is taking a bride, especially after he had just been jilted by his fiancee. All of London is agog. To save face he wants a bride, one he can control, and Joy seems perfect. That is until their wedding night, when he discovers that this winsome lady is, in fact, a witch-a witch whose powers of white magic are not always perfectly under control.

Marsha Canham

THE PRIDE OF LIONS. 3-1988. ISBN: 0440224578. Georgian Period. Alexander Cameron may have won the highborn English beauty, Catherine Ashbrook, in a duel, but not even the lure of long-forgotten desires could keep him from his meeting with destiny.  He had no choice but to carry his reluctant bride off the the Highlands, to a world of ancient blood feuds and brewing rebellion.

THE BLOOD OF ROSES. 10-1989.ISBN: 0440224551. Georgian Period. The sequel to "The Pride of Lions". Catherine Ashbrooke Cameron had committed the unpardonable sin of falling in love with her husband -- a Scottish spy she married in her English home.  Now, as she raced to the Highlands, into the strong, tender arms of Alexander Cameron, the innocent English beauty would learn the passions of war -- and the price of love...

MIDNIGHT HONOR. 4-2001. ISBN: 0440235227. Georgian Period.  Angus Moy, chief of Clan Chattan, was everything Lady Anne could desire in a husband and a lover.  But that was before the winds of war tore through her homeland. While Angus was pledged to fight for the English, Anne embarked on a course to lead her clan in battle, fiercely defending the Jacobite cause... with the dangerously attractive Captain John MacGillivray at her side.

Kathryn Lynn Davis

TOO DEEP FOR TEARS. 12-1989. ISBN: 0671725327. Victorian Period.  Dashing English diplomat Charles Kittridge relished the abundant pleasures of the world, and in his far-flung wanderings, he left behind three remarkable daughters: Ailsa Rose, Li-An, and Genevra, each growing to womanhood haunted by a legacy of betrayal. Now their father has but one final desire--to bring together the daughters he has never known.

Jude Deveraux

HIGHLAND VELVET. 1982. ISBN:0671674706. Medieval Period. Stephen Montgomery came to Scotland a conqueror, saw Bronwyn MacCarran's beauty, and was vanquished. But still she would abhor him. Yet, while clan fought against clan, and the highlands ran with blood--their destiny was made. This mighty warrior pledged himself to his woman's pride, her honor and her name--and made of their love a torch to burn through the ages!.

VELVET ANGEL. 1983. ISBN: 0671739735. Medieval Period. She came to him as a precious gift, a naked angel rolled in a rug. Once he gazed into her green eyes, saw her tangle of honey blonde hair, he was undone with passion.  Elizabeth would never surrender. He was a hated Montgomery - she was a Chatworth and the blood war between their families raged on, a wildfire of rape, murder, and betrayal.

Tracy Fobes

TO TAME A WILD HEART 8/2001. ISBN: 0743412788. The villagers think her one of the fairy-folk, for she was found wandering the Highlands at the age of four, able to communicate with the creatures of the moors. Now eighteen, Sarah quietly uses her gift to heal wounded animals. But when word of the lovely changeling spreads, her peaceful existence is shattered. Convinced Sarah is his long-lost daughter, the powerful Duke of Argyll offers to bequeath her his estate if she will but take her place in society. Her first duty is to become a lady -- under the tutelage of the duke's erstwhile heir, the dangerously provocative Earl of Cawdor. Sarah savors the simmering passions the cynical earl arouses in her even as she suspects he is merely using seduction to secure his birthright. In this civilized world where desire and deception are one and the same, how can she ever trust in love?

Diana Gabaldon

OUTLANDER. 7-1991. ISBN:0385302304. Georgian Period. First in a three-book series that combines time travel, humor, and passionate romance. While Claire and her husband visit an ancient stone monument in 1945 England, Claire is suddenly thrust back to the year 1743--and becomes torn between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives

DRAGONFLY IN AMBER. 8-1992. ISBN: 0440215625. Georgian Period. Following on the heels of the mass market publication of Outlander, which introduced readers to Claire Randall and her journey through time, Dragonfly in Amber returns us to the heroine 20 years after her fantastic voyage through the stones in Scotland.  Claire finally reveals the truth to her daughter, Brianna, about her journey through the stones, about Jamie Frasier, the gallant highland warrior who stole her heart, and her desire to return to the love she left behind. 

VOYAGER. 1-1994. ISBN:0385302320. Georgian Period.  Two decades before, Claire Randall had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth- century Scot name Jamie Fraser.  Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden.   Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire chooses her destiny.  

DRUMS OF AUTUMN. 1-1997. ISBN:0385311400. Georgian Period. Time-transcending soulmates Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall return in this novel of romance and adventure. Jamie and Claire have landed on the shores of Charleston, South Carolina, in the year 1767--the eve of the American Revolution. In search of a new life far removed from the perils of war, they join a community of exiled Scottish Highlanders. When Jamie's daughter Brianna crosses into the past in search of the father she has never known, Jamie realizes that war spares no one--and that love is the only thing worth fighting for.

Julie Garwood

THE BRIDE. 7-1989. ISBN: 0671737791. Medieval Period.  By edict of the king, Scottish laird Alec Kincaid must take an English bride. His choice was Jamie, the feisty and beautiful violet-eyed daughter of Baron Jamison, who vows never to surrender to the arrogant highlander. Set in the Scottish Highlands, this is a story of a rebellious woman, a fierce chieftain, and a passionate love that sealed their destiny.

RANSOM. 2-1999. ISBN:0671003356. Medieval Period. Ten years ago, beautiful Gillian was a mere child when Baron Alford slaughtered her father and devastated her family in his mad quest to recover a precious jeweled box. On a quest to avenge this loss, can Scottish chieftains Ramsey Sinclair and Brodick Buchanan help her to recover from this devastating loss, and can love be found on the way to revenge?

SAVING GRACE. 8-1993. ISBN:0671744224. Medieval Period. Young golden-haired widow Lady Johanna vowed she would never marry again. Yet when King John demanded that she remarry and selected a bridegroom for her, it seemed she must obey. Then her foster brother suggests she wed his friend, the handsome Scottish warrior Gabriel MacBain. As the gruff, gallant laird loses his heart to the shy Joanna, she suspects that she was falling in love with her new husband. But then a royal intrigue threatens to tear them apart and destroy the man she loves

THE SECRET. 5-1992. ISBN:0671744216. Medieval Period. Proud and beautiful Judith Hampton journeys from her English home to be with a childhood friend and meet the father she has never known, the powerful Laird Maclean. But even her escort, the Laird Iain Maitland, cannot prepare her for the truth about her father, and a devastating secret that may change her life forever.

THE WEDDING. 8-1996. ISBN:0671870998. Medieval Period. In this sequel to The Bride, Lady Brenna MacAlister has no illusions that her husband was in love with her but determines to be happy and learn to love her brave but superstitious quiet husband. But when she's trapped in a web of dangerous intrigue by a rival laird, Brenna knows that only faith in her courageous husband can save her. 

Kathleen Givens

KILGANNON. 11-1999. ISBN:0440235677. Renaissance Period. Mary Lowell wasn't interested in marriage despite her aunt's determination to find her a husband by the end of the London Season. Then Alex MacGannon, Earl of Kilgannon, strode into the ballroom and commanded her heart. They called him a barbarian, a rough-hewn Scot--chieftain of clan MacGannon. They said no woman could hold him, as he set sail on the high seas. But Alex returned to claim Mary Lowell as his own, to carry her off to Scotland, to his magnificent ancestral castle, Kilgannon. And as the Highlands are torn by rebellion, Mary will find passion--and danger--in the rugged land she would now call home. 

THE WILD ROSE OF KILGANNON. 12-1999. ISBN:0440235685. Renaissance Period. Mary and Alex's love story continues. As the fires of war engulf Castle Kilgannon, beautiful Mary stands fast, protecting her family and home. But when news comes of the capture of her beloved Alex, Mary vows to rescue her brave husband, who offered his life to save his men. As a defiant Alex is tried in London as a traitor, Mary unleashes her own campaign on London society, determined to win justice on the most dangerous battlefield of all. Even as Alex remains imprisoned in the Tower, she seeks his passionate embrace, forbidden and unforgettable, risking everything to free the rugged freedom fighter who has claimed her, body and soul...

Virginia Henley

A YEAR AND A DAY. 3-1998. ISBN:0385318170. Medieval Period. When Lynx de Warenne, Edward Plantagenet's most prized warrior, invaded Dumfries castle, he took possession of Jane Leslie's home--and soon wanted something more from the headstrong lass. Desperate for an heir, he proposed a handfasting: a Scottish custom whereby a man can lawfully take a woman into his bed, then, after a year and a day, the couple can either wed or part. Any child of that union is deemed legitimate. Jane had no choice but to surrender to the invader's knowing touch. . . .

Jillian Hunter

FAIRY TALE. 4-1997. ISBN:0671001574. Georgian Period. Duncan MacElgin, of the devil's own reputation and sinful past, has been forced to return hone to his crumbling Scottish castle -- only to be ambushed by a woman!  Worse, the tartan-clad female was impertinent, unrepentant, and beautiful...

Susan Johnson

OUTLAW. 11-1993. ISBN:0553299557. Renaissance Period. When her enemy, the infamous Laird of Ravensby, abducts her in order to win his brother's freedom from an English dungeon, Elizabeth Graham finds herself strangely attracted to this notorious privateer.

Joan Johnston

THE BODYGUARD. 4-1998. ISBN:0440223776. Renaissance Period. When the tall, rugged stranger stepped out of the shadows and rescued her from her fate worse than death, Katherine MacKinnon knew she had found her bodyguard. With this steely arms and reckless courage, he would shield her from her clansman, who refused to accept her as laird, and from the hated Duke of Blackthorne, who controlled her family's lands. As her desire grew for the mysterious man who was constantly by her side, she had no idea that she was falling in love with the enemy himself.

Susan King

LADY MIRACLE. 9-1997. ISBN:0451407660. Medieval Period. She had a golden light in her hair -- and heat and magic in her hands. She was called "Lady Miracle," possessed of a gift that made her feared by the superstitious Scots of her homeland. No one knew of the secret sorrow in Michaelmas Faulkener's past. Yet for one man, she was his only hope.

LAIRD OF THE WIND. 8-1998. ISBN:0451407687. Medieval Period. Branded a traitor by the prophecies of Black Isobel, Lady of Aberlady, James Lindsay is determined to take the prophetess hostage and use her as a pawn to free his captured rebel cousin. But Isobel isn't what James expected, and his heart threatens to overthrow his careful plans.
       
THE RAVEN'S MOON. 2-1997. ISBN:0451188683. Renaissance Period. Mhairi Macrae felt danger all around her. Her twin brother Iain had seen a vision of a tall Border rider galloping his dark horse through a storm, calling Mhairi's name. Now Iain had been unjustly arrested, and Mhairi had done the only thing she could: become an outlaw to intercept the messenger bringing his death warrant.  

THE STONE MAIDEN. 3-2000. ISBN:0451199707. Medieval Period. Alainna MacLaren is the last hope of her Highland clan. According to the legend of the Stone Maiden, the ancient enchantment that protects her people will fade -- unless Alainna weds a man who is willing to adopt her name.... THE KNIGHT Sebastien le Bret is a hardened knight with noble aspirations. He agrees to help Alainna in exchange for her land, and will fight to protect her people -- but he has no intention of forsaking his name to marry her...

Lynn Kurland

A DANCE THROUGH TIME. 12-1996. ISBN:051511927X. Medieval Period. Scotland, 1311. James MacLeod was the most respected-and feared-laird in all of Scotland. he loved his men like brothers and his land with a passion. And he allowed no women to cross the threshold of his keep... New York City, 1996. With an indifferent fiance and a stalled writing career, Elizabeth Smith found passion and adventure only in the unpublished romance novels that she wrote. Until a Scottish hero began calling to her

THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU. 4-1998.ISBN:0515122610. Medieval Period. Alexander Smith had found success in the world of corporate takeovers--but not happiness. That had always escaped him...along with true love. Then, at the MacLeod Keep in Scotland, he found a pirate map that miraculously answered his yearnings--with a journey to another time. And when he was captured in Medieval England by Margaret of Falconberg, a fierce beauty hidden in knight's armor, he rediscovered his own chivalrous--and passionate--heart.

Arnette Lamb

THREADS OF DESTINY. 8-1990. ISBN:0445210362. Georgian Period. Lady Suisan Harper couldn't take her eyes off the dangerously attractive Myles Cunningham. But handsome or not, Myles had ruined her family's business and stolen the patterns for their clan tartans--and now Suisan was willing to risk everything, even her honor, to get them back.

HIGHLAND ROGUE. 7-1991. ISBN:0671730010. Georgian Period. An indentured servant from Virginia, Juliet White came to Scotland to find her niece, the child her sister had borne before she died. The search took her to the castle of Lachlan MacKenzie, duke of Ross, where she was accepted as governess to the four illegitimate daughters of the lusty aristocrat, all sired in one lascivious season at the Scottish Court.

Stephanie Laurens

SCANDAL'S BRIDE. 3-1999. ISBN:0380805685. Regency Period. How can an honorable lady like Lady Catriona Hennessy unite with a rake like Richard Cynster? Though charmed by his commanding presence, she cannot give up her independence. Marriage had not previously been on Richard's agenda, but perhaps taming the lady was just the challenge he needs--if he can have the rights of the marraige bed without making any revealing promises of love?

Elizabeth Lowell

UNTAMED. 3-1993. ISBN:0380769530. Medieval Period. Returning from the Crusades, the noble knight, Dominic le Sabre, comes to Scotland to claim his reward - the beautiful Saxon bride promised to him by the conqueror king. The well-beloved daughter of a sacred tribe of Celtic mystics, Lady Margaret of Blackthorne vows never to yield to the bold Norman invader who has been forced upon her. For she fears an ancient curse may bring further bloodshed to her battle-scarred land...and sorrow to her marriage bed... 

Judith McNaught

ALMOST HEAVEN. 4-1990. -ISBN: 0671742558. Regency Period.  No bounty in England could outshine Elizabeth Cameron, Countess of Havenhurst. But beneath her exquisite emerald eyes and cloud of golden hair lived a girl of rare gentleness, pride and splendid, even ferocious courage. In Ian Thornton's powerful embrace, Elizabeth felt the first stirrings of a passion that blazed through her senses, never to be denied. Yet for Thornton, a dangerously handsome man of secret wealth and mysterious lineage, the voyage to Elizabeth's heart was fraught with intrigue, scandal and a venomous jealousy! From London's salons to Scotland's highlands, Almost Heaven weaves its sensuous spell. 

A KINGDOM OF DREAMS. 1989. ISBN: 0671737619. Medieval Period. Abducted from her convent school, headstrong Scottish beauty Jennifer Merrick does not easily surrender to Royce Westmoreland, Duke of Claymore. Known as "The Wolf," his very name strikes terror in the hearts of his enemies. But proud Jennifer will have nothing to do with the fierce English warrior who holds her captive, this handsome rogue who taunts her with his blazing arrogance. Boldly she challenges his will...until the night he takes her in his powerful embrace, awakening in her an irresistible hunger. And suddenly Jennifer finds herself ensnared in a bewildering web...a seductive, dangerous trap of pride, passion, loyalty, and overwhelming love.

Teresa Medeiros

THE BRIDE AND THE BEAST. 7-2000. ISBN:0553801252. Georgian Period.  The superstitious Highlanders of Ballybliss decide to sacrifice Gwendolyn Wilder to the "Dragon" who has been terrorizing their village. After admitting she doesn't believe in dragons, Ballybliss's "Dragon" had little choice but to make her his prisoner--or risk being exposed to those he sought to deceive with his dangerous masquerade.

Karyn Monk

THE PRISONER 5/2001 ISBN:055357762X He was a fugitive from justice...Once a powerful laird, now a convicted murderer, Haydon Kent, Marquess of Redmond, had no hope of eluding the hangman's noose --until a mysterious beauty appeared in the dark shadows of his cell. Escaping in the dead of night, he sought only to reclaim his life and prove his innocence. Instead he finds himself imprisoned once again --by an exquisite woman with red-gold hair who soothes his fevered body and tormented soul ... and stirs in him a passion unlike any he has ever known....until she imprisoned his heart. An outcast from society, Genevieve MacPhail has devoted her life to rescuing wayward urchins from the brutalities of a corrupt prison system. Harboring an infamous escaped murderer will only imperil the beloved children who have become the center of her world. But she doesn't believe the disarmingly handsome nobleman is a cold-blooded killer --even if he does harbor a painful secret. Determined to solve the mystery of who was trying to kill him, Genevieve will assume the role of Haydon's wife, only to find herself succumbing to a dangerous desire that could destroy them both

Karen Marie Moning

BEYOND THE HIGHLAND MIST. 4-1999. ISBN:0440234808. Medieval Period.  He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart--until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland. Captive in a century not her own, entirely too bold, too outspoken, she was an irresistible challenge to the sixteenth-century rogue. 

KISS OF THE HIGHLANDER 9/2001 ISBN: 044023655X Enchanted by a powerful spell, Highland laird Drustan MacKeltar slumbered for nearly five centuries hidden deep in a cave, until an unlikely savior awakened him. The enticing lass who dressed and spoke like no woman he’d ever known was from his distant future, where crumbled ruins were all that remained of his vanished world. Drustan knew he had to return to his own century if he was to save his people from a terrible fate. And he needed the bewitching woman by his side....A woman changed forever in his arms...Gwen Cassidy had come to Scotland to shake up her humdrum life and, just maybe, meet a man. How could she have known that a tumble down a Highland ravine would send her plunging into an underground cavern — to land atop the most devastatingly seductive man she’d ever seen? Or that once he’d kissed her, he wouldn’t let her go? Bound to Drustan by a passion stronger than time, Gwen is swept back to sixteenth-century Scotland, where a treacherous enemy plots against them ... and where a warrior with the power to change history will defy time itself for the woman he loves....

TO TAME A HIGHLAND WARRIOR. 1-2000. ISBN:0440234816. Medieval Period. Summoned to "Come for Jillian," Grimm is forced to come back to the heritage he abandoned and the woman he loved.  Determined to see her wed to another, he attempts to shun her attentions, right up until she is at the altar and his raging desire wins out.

Karyn Monk

THE WITCH AND THE WARRIOR. 6-1998. ISBN:0553557602. Medieval Period. Suspected of witchcraft, Gwendolyn MacSween has been condemned to being burned at the stake at the hands of her own clan. Yet rescue comes from a most unlikely source. Mad Alex MacDunn, laird of the mighty rival clan MacDunn, is a man whose past is scarred with tragedy and loss. His last hope lies in capturing the witch of the MacSweens--and using her magic to heal his dying son.

Jennifer Roberson

LADY OF THE GLEN. 4-1996. ISBN:1575660229. Renaissance Period. the story of Catriona Campbell's enduring passion for Alasdair Og MacDonald, the second-born son of her clan's most powerful foe, the Laird of Glencoe. Enemies from birth, Catriona and Alasdair know from the moment they meet that they will lie in each other's arms someday. But their love, for centuries forbidden, comes at the most dangerous of times, as they become pawns of war -- and of history.

Nora Roberts

REBELLION. 8-1988. ISBN:037328604X. Harlequin Historical. Georgian Period. One look at Serena MacGregor and Brigham Langston was captivated. But though she had the face of an angel, this Scots lass was a wildcat, spurning his advances with a rapier-sharp tongue. He was English, so she despised him. But disgust wasn't all Serena felt, for Brigham was as handsome as the devil, tempting as sin. In his arms she melted with the heat of their passion. Against the bloody background of the Battle of Culloden, another war was waged and won-the price was honor, the victory, love.

Sue Ellen Welfender

DEVIL IN A KILT 8/2001 ISBN:0446610259 Linnet MacDonnell was the youngest of seven sisters, and not the family beauty. With her flame-bright red hair, sharp tongue, and strange gift of second sight, no man wanted her. But the devil would take her. Bartered as a bride to her father's long-sworn enemy, the nobly born Highlander, Duncan MacKenzie of Kintail, she had no choice but to enter a marriage with a man rumored to have murdered his first wife and said to possess neither heart nor soul. Forbidding and proud, Duncan MacKenzie wanted only one thing from his new bride -- to use her special gift to determine if young Robbie was truly his son. He never expected the MacDonnell lass to stubbornly follow her heart, chase away the darkness in his castle with light and laughter, and ignite a raging fire in his blood. How dare she defy him, and tempt a devil like him to feel what he feared most of all --- love!

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