Highland Jewel

This book is great the story flows easily and keeps you wanting more.The love story between the main characters is warm loving and full of spunky passion.The love story by the supporting charachters is charming,fun,and helps to bring alive the lives of all in a whole.The action is great with out all the excess gore that some writers use.Terri Lynn Wilhelm gets the reader so involved you dont want to see the end of there journey.I wish she would keep writing about these characters since there is so much unexplored possibilites and directions to go in.

I loved this story. I had never heard of Terri Lynn Wilhelm when I bought this book. I was interested in buying it when I saw that it was set in the Scottish Highlands, which is my favorite story setting. I took a chance...and was not disappointed. Ms. Wilhelm has an extraordinary talent for storytelling, her stories flow quickly and easily and her detailed descriptions of everything from the setting to the characters' emotions really allow you to get caught up in the story. The 2 lead characters are both strong, brave, honorable and currently in trouble. Hero was once wealthy, until her mother remarried. Now she finds herself lost and alone in the wild higlands of Scotland searching for her aunt after having escaped the poverty of London, not to mention a pair of lecherous hands. She meets up with Ciaran, who is escaping a band of blood thirsty Highlanders bent on seeing him die. Their paths cross. Hero asks for his help in searching for her elusive aunt and Ciaran finds he must help her for fear that she goes about it alone - again. In the process of Ciaran's helping Hero find her aunt, they find themselves falling in love with each other. Ciaran does not want this to happen as he feels his days are numbered with the MacDubhair clan's slaughtering his whole clan and him being the sole survivor and hunted by them. Once Hero gets past her initial fears she decides she wants him. To keep. So when Ciaran does the heart-breakingly noble thing by not touching her and leaving her behind so he can go off and basically get himself killed - she does not allow it.I won't tell you any more of the story but its a definite must read. The emotions the characters feel are very clearly described throughout.

Highland Jewel was both romantic and excitingly full of suspense. I could not put the book down and yet I did not want it to end. It would be so nice if Miss Wilhelm would write a sequel.

Highland Jewel has everything--a wonderful, unusual setting, a spunky, loveable heroine, and an unforgettable hero. It also has a tender--and quite sexy!--romance between two strong, exciting characters. You'll hate to see their story end. I've read other books by this author, and I loved them all. She completely captures the feel of the Highlands--and she uses both humor and deep emotion in every story. I especially love her heroes. They aren't just gorgeous men. They always have a special, tragic nobility, too.

Highland Jewel was a pageturner from start to finish.Ciaran is not your regular male hero because his clan has been disintigrated and his land stolen yet he is so noble in his quest to avenge these crimes. Hero Fraser just needs to find her aunt to help her since her family no longer can or will. They make the perfect couple. True highland romance fans will love this story!!