The Lady and the Highlander (A Highland Fairy Tale #3)

*I am voluntarily leaving a review for an eARC that was provided to me by NetGalley and the publisher*

This installment of the Highland Fairytale series is about Laire MacLeod, the fairest of the MacLeod sisters, so it is fitting that her story is Snow White like.

Laire’s father has remarried and Bibiana, her new stepmother is breathtakingly beautiful. She has arrived at the castle with her three servants and has already bewitched everyone. Everyone except for Laire.

Laire is dismayed that her father and sisters seem to be under a spell, they have all partaken in the wine that the new Lady MacLeod has brought and they dance all night and sleep the days away. Laire refuses to drink the wine, she only drinks water due to a tragic event in her past. She realizes that the wine is the reason her family is bewitched and believes that they are being poisoned.

Desperate to save them, she escapes the castle and hopes to find her uncle, a renown botanist to help her find a cure.

Iain, Laird Lindsay is Bibiana’s huntsman aka sealgair, and indebted to her for seven years. Iain has been charged with tracking Laire down and bringing her back. Iain feels nothing, he just wants to repay his debt to Bibiana and then disappear. He refuses to form attachments and believes he no long is able to feel emotion, but Laire has changed all that. She makes him feel for the first time in years and she has brought forth emotions he has never felt. But guilt and bitterness have a strong hold on him and he refuses to let the Laire affect him. However when he has the chance to capture her, he instead helps her escape.

When he returns to the castle empty handed, Bibiana issues a threat that Iain cannot ignore and he vows to find Laire and bring her back. But Bibiana no longer wants Laire, she just wants her heart.

Iain sets out after Laire and catches up to her pretty quickly, but he doesn’t count on the beauty being a fearsome MacLeod, he underestimates her and she escapes again.

Laire is totally unprepared to survive on her own and is thrown into one horrifying event after another. She finally reaches Edinburgh but has no idea where her uncle lives and she is once again thrust into danger. This time she is saved by some abandoned children – seven of them to be exact – they take her back to their lair and she agrees to cook and care for them in exchange for their help in finding her uncle.

When Iain finally makes his way to Edinburgh, he is injured when he confronts some men he believes have found Laire’s body. He convinces them to give them the heart and sends it to Bibiana hoping to make her believe that Laire is dead, thus saving her. Being in Edinburgh forces Iain to confront his past and when he and Laire are reunited, makes him long for a future.

But as it goes in fairytales, the path to true love is not easy and these two have many more hurdles to jump before they can even begin to hope for a HEA.

I liked this book, I thought it was well written, but it did drag a bit in the middle and I had a hard time with Iain’s complete change of heart. I believed he loved Laire, but for me, it just didn’t develop at a believable pace. However, the final chapters of the book had me on the edge of my seat and I thought the ending was fantastic.

I would recommend this book, it is part of a series, but it can easily be read as a stand alone title.

I read this book in a day. Charming, but a little naughty 😉 Great way to spend an afternoon.

One again I could not put another book in this series down till I was finished! Beauty and the Highland Beast and now this, will definitely be in my read again Favorites on my Kindle! Can’t wait for the next one.

What a story line!!! The book reminded me of the Snow White story. I could not stop reading this story.

This fairy tale had everything all rolled into one! You couldn’t wait to what was going to happen next. Great!

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