Taken by a Highland Laird
The
MacLomain Series
A New
Beginning, #2
by
Sky Purington
Date of
Publication: December 18th 2017
Cover Artist:
Tara West
Genre: Time
Travel Fantasy Romance
The Book Junkie
Reads . . . Review of . . . TAKEN BY A HIGHLAND LAIRD (The MacLomain Series: A New
Beginning, #2) . . . Another adventure in The MacLomain series with a new installment to the New Beginning series. I have the
expectation of getting an adventure to dream about, a laird that takes my breath
away, an American female that has no clue what she has gotten herself into.
Lindsay may not know exactly what she has gotten herself involved in, but she
finds that her training/profession helps her out of a few spots quite efficiently.
That was until she gets caught up with a band of Scotsmen, one in particular. He
pretends to want nothing to do with her, but that was quite obvious not the
truth of things.
Conall and Lindsay find that their attraction
to one another was strong. And a bit history changing. I loved following the adventure
that Lindsay got herself in. The adventure with the English solider, the Scotsmen,
the Bruce and even with the William Wallace. I love finding myself in a new setting
that contains the rich history of the Scots, the grand adventures of 21st
century women in the past, and the heroic, protective nature of the highland lairds/lords/warriors.
The
MacLomain Series: A New Beginning series:
Sworn to the Highland Laird – The MacLomain Series: A New Beginning, #1
Taken by a Highland Laird – The MacLomain Series: A New Beginning, #2
Promised to a Highland Laird – The MacLomain Series: A New Beginning, #3
BLURB
The last thing Lindsay expects when she
visits Milly’s home in New Hampshire is to be thrust back in time to thirteenth
century Scotland days before the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Worse yet, captured
by the English. Using her wits and ability to wrap men around her little
finger, she survives long enough to be rescued by a band of Scotsmen. One of
them, a rigid Highland chieftain determined to protect his country, rarely lets
her out of his sight. A man, as it turns out, who is immune to her allure…or so
it seems.
From the moment Clan MacLomain decides to
save Scotland’s history, Laird Conall Hamilton knows he needs to be part of it.
What he does not foresee is a beautiful twenty-first century actress crossing
his path. More so, that they end up caught in an obligatory kiss that sparks an
infamous battle. A kiss, as Fate would have it, that takes them on an adventure
through time to both the Action at Earnside Skirmish and the Action at Happrew.
Joining first Sir William Wallace then King
Robert the Bruce, Conall and Lindsay end up on a journey that will leave
neither unscathed. Though determined to keep each other at arm’s length, desire
simmers, reeling them ever closer. Inner demons are faced as they navigate a
powerful connection neither saw coming. A bond so intense and passionate that
it might very well help them defeat the enemy and save a nation.
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Excerpt (Spicy)
“I’ll be,” Lindsay murmured as she continued
to eye him with a look he knew all too well by now. She thought she had found a
way to get closer to him. Therefore, a means to eventually get him to do
anything she wanted.
Almost as
if she followed his thoughts, she cocked her head. “You don’t like that do you,
Conall?” Her lashes dropped a scant fraction as she seemed to see right through
him. “You don’t want to get too personal because it might allow me too close.”
The corner of her lip curled up slowly, and her knowing eyes sparkled with
newfound power. “Why do I get the feeling it’s already too late?”
He
frowned. “Too late for what?”
“Too late
for you to stop wanting me,” she whispered, her large sultry eyes shimmering in
the torchlight. “Because you do, don’t you, Conall?”
Aye. He
did. With everything in him.
Like
always, it was nearly impossible to pull his eyes from hers, but he did. As it
was every time, he had to fight to keep from looking at her again. Gazing at
the lass muddled his mind, and right now it needed to stay level. More than
that, he had to remember she was not the lass for him.
He would
never survive her.
She
inhaled deeply and murmured to herself. Words he could hear with his superior
hearing. Words that caught him off-guard. Against his better judgement, he
looked her way again. “What do you mean you dinnae understand why I’m different
than the rest?” He frowned. “Explain, lass.”
“Oh, I
think you know.” She stood, her movements fluid and seductive as she sauntered
his way. “I think you very well know.”
Though
the dress given to her at the camp was too big for her, it didn’t hide her full
breasts or her perfect hourglass figure. She was built for a man’s hands and
hell if she didn’t know it as she sat beside him, close enough that their
shoulders touched. Her slender hand slid onto his thigh dangerously close to
his eager cock. If he didn’t know better, he would say she knew exactly what
state she had him in.
“You are
wearing the ring again,” he managed, irritated by his thickening voice, by the
stark lust she provoked.
“I am,”
she concurred as her hand slid a fraction closer to his manhood. “Do you know
why?”
“Aye.”
Conall put his hand over hers and shook his head. “But we will find another way
out of here.”
Any way
but how they got here, to begin with.
“You
enjoyed that kiss, Laird Hamilton,” she murmured, her voice soft and seductive.
“Don’t tell me you didn’t.”
He more
than enjoyed it. But it was a kiss that could not be repeated. Yet as she
intended, his eyes drifted to her lips. When they did, the tip of her dainty
pink tongue slipped out and ran along her plush lower lip. He didn’t realize he
had clenched his hand around hers until she jerked ever-so-slightly. When she
did, he pulled away only for her to try to stop him which, as it turned out,
conveniently put her hand right alongside his erection.
He
clenched his jaw and remained very still as her eyes dropped and her breath
caught.
If he had
any willpower left, he would push her hand away. He would remind her that
unlike most men, he did not want her. Yet she was already blatantly admiring
proof that said otherwise. A maneuver he knew she did on purpose to reel him
ever closer. Regrettably, it was working because he had not moved an inch.
He tried
to focus on the hiss of the torches, even the chill of the stone at his back,
but all he could see was her hand. How small and delicate it appeared beside
the heavy ridge of his cock straining against his breeches.
“Well,
well,” she said softly, her voice raspy, sensual and knowing. “It seems you’re
stiff in more ways than one, Laird Hamilton.”
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Author Info
Sky Purington is the bestselling
author of over thirty novels and several novellas. A New Englander born and
bred who recently moved to Virginia, Sky was raised hearing stories of
folklore, myth, and legend. When combined with a love for nature, romance, and
time-travel, elements from the stories of her youth found release in her books.
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