A Highlander for Christmas

I love reading Christmas romances during the Holiday season... Nothing gets me in the Christmas spirit like curling up with a good Christmas romance and a cup of eggnog! It's traditional in my home to have books everywhere and during the Holidays almost every one has Christmas in the title! This one was a wonderful start to my Holiday season. I enjoyed seeing modern day Boston through Cam's eyes. His thoughts on the "empty-ay", the "teevee" and other things we take for granted were enough to have me laughing out loud. And, of course, the perfect ending always makes me teary-eyed! I haven't read Sandy Blair's other Highlander books yet, but you can bet they are on my Christmas wishlist now. Who can pass up a hunky Scot... or two?

Claire MacGregor runs the Velvet Pumpkin, an antique store in Boston. While preparing for the Christmas season, she learns of the death of her longtime friend, Tavish MacLean. Tavish leaves her everything, including a puzzle box that holds quite a surprise. Sir Cameron MacLeod is preparing for battle with a rival clan in 1745. Before leaving, he visits his adoptive mother, well known through the region for her powers. The next thing he knows he's standing naked in a strange place, and in front of a strange, but beautiful, woman. Claire's not sure what to make of the handsome highlander who appears from the puzzle box. They set out to try and find a way to send him back to his own time. But after studying books and consulting with witches, they know that he's stuck in 2007. He has lots of things to come to terms with: the fact that bucks aren't always deer, and the fact he's falling in love with Claire. A Highlander for Christmas is a touching, sweet story. Ms. Blair has drawn wonderful characters. I could feel their pain over the situation in which they found themselves. I could also feel the love grow between them. Cam's adjustments to modern day life brought more than a few laughs. And their love for each other brought quite a few smiles. A Highlander for Christmas is a great read, at any time of the year. Amelia Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

I just finished A Highlander for Christmas and can not understand the mind-set of anyone who would disrespect the book. It was fun reading, very descriptive and fast paced. It made me laugh, cry and have hot flashes. I guess I'll never view a reindeer in quite the same way as the picture in my mind of a six and half foot Highlander running across the Green carrying a 150 pound reindeer drapped across his shoulders and going back for the doe because the buck seemed lonesome is so vivid.

In A HIGHLANDER FOR CHIRSTMAS, Sandy Blair takes her readers on another time-travel. This time she brings her Scottish hero, Sir Cameron MacLeod, out of the 18th century Scotland on the eve of the Battle of Culloden, to modern day Boston. Antique-store owner, Claire MacGregor's world changes the night she opens a puzzle box. She awakens later to find a very handsome, naked and rather angry man in her room. Once she realizes he's neither from this country or this century, she promises to find a way to send him home. From one adventure to another, some of which involve bailing Cam out of the local jails, Claire falls further and further in love with the big Scot. Cam, whose own heart is falling for Claire, refuses to act upon his desires since he plans to find some way to return to his own time and home. The ending is such a satisfying happily ever after for the brawny Cam and the tender-hearted Claire that old and new fans of Ms. Blair's work will sigh with contentment. This is a MUST read for any Scot-o-phile. Filled with Ms. Blair's humor and witty prose, you will NOT be disappointed.

With only days left before Christmas, the antiques business should be going great guns. Unfortunately, bad weather and bad luck leave dealer Claire MacGregor with more debts than deals. Things go from tricky to downright dangerous when one of her friends dies, leaving Claire more trouble than money. A part of his inheritance is a Celtic box that has been in the family since Culloden. But when Claire attempts to unravel the puzzle of the old box, a strange man--a naked man--suddenly appears in her shop. He'd been at the point of marching out for battle, along with the Highlander armies of Prince Charles Stewart, when Highlander Sir Cameron MacLeod was bespelled, sent away from the coming disaster of Culloden, but also locked away from everything he knew, everything he loved. When Claire MacGregor undoes the spell that held him, Cameron finds himself on another continent, hundreds of years in his future. There's a lot to admire about the future, most especially Claire MacGregor's fine hurdies but not even they can make him forget his duty. When he learns of the disaster of Culloden and its aftermath, Cameron swears he'll return to Scotland and protect his family. That the best looking man she's ever seen wants nothing more than to get away from her doesn't surprise Claire. What does surprise her is how much trouble one man can get into. Cameron's Highlander-warrior instincts lead him to take what he needs, to fight back when attacked, and to have precious-little respect for men of the law. Keeping Cameron bonded out of jail would be a full time job--even if Claire's business had been doing well enough to cover the expenses. While attraction draws the two together, Cameron's burning need to return to the past and set it right, along with Claire's certainty that a man like Cameron needs more than a woman like Claire, seems doomed to keep them apart. Author Sandy Blair spins another sexy and funny light paranormal romance in A HIGHLANDER FOR CHRISTMAS. Cameron's misunderstandings of the present always lead to disaster and watching disaster unfold as Cameron blithely pushes forward is plenty of fun. Earnest Claire MacGregor makes a great foil for Cameron's always-wrong decisions and despite herself, she's drawn into adventures that are clearly doomed from the beginning. Blair has outdone herself in HIGHLANDER--I'm happy to recommend this one.