Series: Prince Charlie's Angels, #2
Traits & Tropes: brother's best friend; heroine cares for injured hero
Genre/Setting: Historical; Scotland; Second Jacobite Rebellion, 1745
Publication Date: 12.29.20
Heat Level: 3/5
Rating: 4.5/5
With her family’s castle ravaged by enemy troops during the Jacobite Rebellion, Annie MacPherson finds her existence shattered by war. Deciding she must use her healing skills to help her countrymen in any way she can, Annie combs battlefields herself seeking wounded men she can heal. There she finds her brother’s friend, Lieutenant Craig MacLean, gravely wounded. As she works to heal his injuries, she soon finds the warrior has stolen her heart.
With patrols of English dragoons circling ever nearer to the cottage Annie has been using as a hospital, Craig knows they must leave soon and stay together if they’re to survive. But their flight brings them to a meeting with the enemy and Craig is imprisoned, leading Annie to risk everything, knowing life without Craig would’ve been worth living.
This book was chocked full of adventure and action more so than romance, and yet the romance still came through in the end and was very memorable for me. This one had me tearing up, biting my nails, and later, swooning over how sweet Annie and Craig were together. I loved how both of these characters really came into their own even in the midst of so much turmoil, Craig overcoming his childhood torments and feelings of inadequacy, and Annie deciding to take something for herself for once. I was also thoroughly charmed by the additional unions being formed at the end of the book. It was so nice to end on that high note after such a heavily charged and at times difficult to read book. I liked this book better than its predecessor. Though we still had a very slow burn here and a lot of danger, the stress of that somehow didn’t get to me quite as badly as it did with the first book. There was still plenty of tension, but I enjoyed the fact that it didn’t take Craig and Annie that long to decide they wanted to be together and once they’d made that resolution, they didn’t let anything keep them apart. I think this is a very tough time period to set a romance in and the author is doing an excellent job of making it work. Even with the heaviness of some scenes which had me putting this aside and taking a break with something lighter, the romance still won out in the end and I’m left with a happy feeling from this couple. Now I look forward to Fiona’s story.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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