Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Devil Wears Plaid-Teresa Medeiros

The Devil Wears Plaid
Teresa Medeiros
Pocket, Aug 24 2010, $7.99
ISBN: 9781439157886

Having left gentle Lancaster for the harsh Highlands, Emmaline Marlowe’s choices are simple. She either marries someone she does not want to or her father goes to debtor prison. Thus Emmaline is at the church about to wed the Hepburn clan laird, a man older than her father.

Stunning everyone at the church, Jamie Sinclair rides inside the holy edifice and grabs Emmaline before riding away with her. Jamie is not abducting Emmaline for altruistic reasons. Instead he and the Hepburn clan are enemies; he plans to use the chief’s fiancĂ©e as an expendable discard in his scheme to avenge what they did to him. However, he quickly wonders who the captive is as the feisty Emmaline rejects being any man’s throwaway though she must say I do to save her father.

The Devil Wears Plaid is an exciting Highlander historical romance starring the first of the “E” sisters and the rogue who abducted her. Emmaline proves energetic and courageous rather than the weak person her capturer anticipated. Although they fall in love (Stockholm syndrome aside), she knows her mission is to save her father (and the rest of the family) so she leaves. Although the premise has been used before many times; readers will appreciate Teresa Medeiros' skills to make her story line fresh, exuberant, and entertaining.

Harriet Klausner

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