title: Beyond the Highland Mist (Highlander, Book 1)
author:  Karen Marie Moning 
description: Moning offers the promise of a terrific plotline in her debut romance: a troubled young woman, Adrienne is transported from the 20th century to 16th-century Scotland by an evil jester to take revenge on a Scottish laird. The author has the right characters: there's the heroine who doesn't trust beautiful men and a handsome hero cursed to love a woman who will not return his love. Add gypsies and Scottish mysticism, against the backdrop of the stark beauty of the Highlands, and you've got an intriguing story. The lovers endure quite a bit of torment in order to find happiness, a downer that even Moning's doses of humor can't always leaven. Unfortunately, Moning doesn't fully deliver: she too often relies on transparent plot devices, and while her falconry imagery is both poignant and sensual, it will remind readers of Elizabeth Lowell's Untamed. <BR>Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  > This is a work of fiction. The characters are products of the author’s
  > imagination and are not based on persons living or dead.
  
  Loving A Highlander
  
  Copyright@2015 Aileen
  
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  > > Scotland, 1655
  
  > > > Water streamed off Gerard Mackenzie’s face and soaked his clothes as
  > thunder boomed overhead. He grimaced as he looked up at the roiling clouds
  > in the sky and cursed the fates that had led him to this godforsaken land.
  > The nighttime shadows loomed dark around him and spurred his mount forward,
  > eager to find shelter to wait out the storm.
  
  > A light flickered in the darkness and Gerard strained to see through the
  > pouring rain. Curiosity got the better of him, and he left the well beaten
  > path. Thunder cracked overhead and his horse shied away from the noise and
  > then reared, throwing him to the sodden ground. His head struck against a
  > large stone and he