Karen Hawkins, How to Abduct a Highland Lord

How to Abduct a Highland Lord

Karen Hawkins

Pocket, Feb 2007, $6.99

ISBN: 1416525033

In 1807, in Scotland, Fiona MacLean fears the feud between her clan and that of wastrel Black Jack Kincaid will soon turn murderously hot as both sides claim righteous grudges. To avoid bloodshed, Fiona asks Jack to come home. Though she exiled him in the first place due to his rakish behavior, since he loves her, Jack leaves his latest London female to rush back to Scotland. However, he awakens to learn he is married to Fiona who claims she is pregnant with his child.

Jack is unhappy with the pregnancy ploy to force a peace between the clans, but is euphoric with a second chance to prove he is worthy of his beloved. He plans to go along with her scheme, including turning her fabrication into the truth. However, Jack may succeed in bed, but fails to earn Fiona's trust as she always believes the worst of him. Even more difficult is keeping the clans from killing one another. However, Jack is willing to risk his life to achieve everlasting love in peaceful environs.

Though the theme of a rake and a passionate female struggling with a relationship between themselves and their clans has been used quite often in Scottish regency romances, Karen Hawkins refreshes her storyline due mostly to Black Jack who hides how much he cares behind his womanizing. The storyline is fast-paced as Fiona rips into Jack while needing him to foster her lie. Readers will enjoy this fin historical as love is the only means of preventing a feud turning deadly.

Harriet Klausner