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For those of us that enjoyed “Sabrina,” Highland Rogue offers a new spin on an old theme. Claire Talbot is the staid, spinster older sister of Tessa, a flighty young woman engaged in Victorian England. As the spinster sister, Claire has been given control of the family company while her younger step-sister is free to be a beautiful debutante. When Tessa’s fickle heart finds a new love interest to distract her while her fiancé is away, Claire and her step-mother step in to keep would-be fortune hunters away.
Ewan Geddes, exiled from his home in Scotland to America, reads of Tessa’s engagement in the newspaper. Having grown up as a servant to the Talbot family, Ewan recalls the young girl that epitomizes beauty to him. Now that he has made his fortune in the new world, he finds himself in a position to take possession of the things that have eluded him: A beautiful bride and acceptance in the society that fought to hold him down as a youth.
Although reconciled to spinsterhood, Claire finds herself once again stepping in to protect her flighty step-sister from herself. Claire and her stepmother plot to have Claire distract Ewan from his prize and determine if his motives are true, unaware that he has amassed his fortune in America. What Claire doesn’t reckon on are her own suppressed feelings for the handsome highlander.
The concept of a woman succeeding in business in Victorian England was handled deftly by the author. A brilliant and well-crafted romance, I enjoyed Highland Rogue from cover to cover.
Reviewed by Karla Brandenburg
for The Road to Romance
October 1, 2004
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