The reunion is hot, sweaty, rapturous, tumultuous.and bittersweet when Catherine is once again left behind, only to follow her husband (with good reason!) as the Jacobite army retreats (still in the middle of winter!) back to Scotland.Īnd it's in Scotland that this story comes to a close on April 16, 1746, on the barren, windswept, gore-filled field of Culloden.and to a second close, a little happier one, at dawn on a field near Achnacarry Castle in Lochaber. Until the Scots (oh, ye, foolish, foolish Bonnie Prince Charlie), cross the river Esk (in the middle of winter, might I add, and march into England.Īnd there's only one person in England whom Alexander Cameron wants to see. The story begins just a few days after the first book ended, in Blackpool, where Alex had sent Catherine to be safe from the upcoming war, then proceeds with intertwining scenes of rural (and still peaceful) Derbyshire, England and the battles both on and off the field in Scotland.
We saw them fall hopelessly and helplessly in love in the first book, so the author was now free to more fully delve into the background story, the history of the final rebellion. The sequel to The Pride of Lions whisks us back into war-torn Scotland of 1745-46, for us to once again join one of the leaders of the second Jacobite rebellion ('The Forty-Five or Bliadhna Theàrlaich Charles' year in Gaelic), Alexander Cameron, and his English wife, Catherine, in their fight for Scottish freedom, their lives, and their love. He had claimed her, touched her, loved her, and she vowed nothing would ever separate them again. But as he rode into battle against the English, she refused to stay behind. Now he must protect Catherine from the dangers that threatened them both. Love had made the legendary warrior vulnerable. He fought to keep her safe as he battled the English enemy-and betrayal from within.Īlexander Cameron was a man with a price on his head and enemies to burn. 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.
She was born an Englishwoman, but he made her a Scot, pledged to fight for her beloved husband-even against the country of her birth.Ĭatherine Ashbrooke Cameron had committed the unpardonable sin of falling in love with her husband-a Scottish spy she married in her English home. In a novel that sizzles with passionate intrigue and breathtaking romance, Marsha Canham whisks the reader back to war-torn Scotland as a legendary warrior fights for the two things most precious to any his country and the woman he loves.
The stunning sequel to The Pride of Lions!
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