Highland Scoundrel: A Novel (Campbell Trilogy)

I always enjoy all of this authors work. It is hard to say which is best. This one was very well done.

This is book #3 and I just loved the other 2 books. When I found out that this book was going in sale I per ordered this book so I would have it. All 3 book are great and I would buy them again.

I love Monica McCartys books. This is one of a series, and I have been waiting for it to come out. She creates a kinship with the reader and characters; and the reader (myself at least) could not wait to hear what had happened to the rest of the characters in this series. The descriptions of the land, it's people and the characterizations of the Scottish Highlands are magnificent. I truly cannot wait until the next one arrives!

Highland Scoundrel was a great read because Ms McCarty knows how to create wonderfully complex heroes. Duncan has been wronged by a lot of people but the one that hurt him the most was Jean Grant. When he finally returns to the Scotland to reclaim his right to his homeland he must use her to get to the bottom of what happened to make him labeled a traitor. What I enjoyed the most was the incredible angst of the situation that both Duncan and especially Jean found themselves in answering the age old question... how important is "family/clan" loyalty when it clashes with the love of your soulmate? Ms McCarty didn't make this a cookie cutter fix and the reader was held in the story to the final pages. The added pluse was the appearance of Jamie and Lizzie and their spouses from the first two books which brought this whole trilogy full circle to a very satisfying end. The only draw back to this and other of her books is that she uses a bit more narative than I like, but that is a personal preference. However, for those readers who love Scottish romances, she offers something much more than the typical "kinna/dinna" books by effectivly using Scottish Gaelic. She also knows her Scottish history shown by her use of the word "tutor" But most important she, unlike so many other Scottish romance writers, knows that Scottish Whisky is never spelled with an "e".

I read Highland Warrior: A Novel & Highland Outlaw: A Novel and all I can say is with each book the story only gets better and better. Duncan fell in love with Jeannie Grant and she fell in love with him. The polictics of the Highlands would pull them apart, causing them to distrust each other- to be manipulated and set adrift by family. Duncan Campbell's is a bastard, and a man who has something to prove. His integrity and honor surpasses any Highland Warrior--even after he is driven from the Highlands because of lies--he becomes well-renown on the contenient. Upon his return, he finds Jeannie Grant, now Gordon, a widowed, with two children--and the only person he knows who might be able to clear his name. Jeannie only wants to protect her son--Duncan's son--the reason she married another man--and now Duncan if he learns of the child's birth will endanger his inheritence and live by merely acknowledging him as his son. The romance in this was compelling and made this one a real page turner!!