The Isle of Lies by Donna Fletcher

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At 29, Moira Maclean considers herself too old to wed, and she's pleased to think she need never surrender her precious independence. She's made a place for herself in a Scottish convent, using her talents for increasing crops and flocks to bring prosperity. It takes only moments to shatter her contented life. A traveler arrives, claiming to bear a message from Moira's dying father, declaring that the only hope for her clan is for Moira to wed him. So, within the hour, she marries the stranger, gives him her virgin's blood -- and learns that everything her new husband has told her is a lie. Her father not only still lives, but she's just wed her clan's most bitter enemy. Still, those bold falsehoods bear valuable fruit -- a truce to end years of bloodshed, and an innocent life growing within Moira to bind their rival clans together. When her husband returns to the convent to claim her, Moira agrees to honor the sacred vows he won from her with lies -- and finds that the handsome trickster is determined to court her, and to defend the promises of peace and love he made to her with his heart's blood.

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Moira Maclean was tricked into marrying Ian Cameron Glencoe, an enemy of her clan. Now, pregnant with his child, her attempt at living this lie is thwarted by her growing love for him.

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The clan battles of 16th-century Scotland form the backdrop for this slow-moving romance from Fletcher (Irish Hope, etc.), which starts with a bang but unfolds with formulaic leisure. Moira Maclean, daughter of a clan leader, has grown up in a convent, virtually forgotten by her father until, at 29, she's considered too old for childbearing. Suddenly a battle-weary warrior named Ian Cameron appears with his men, shattering the nighttime peace of the convent. He brings a token from her father, who he claims insisted on his deathbed that Moira marry Ian to prevent a war. Alarmed but obedient, she goes through with the hurried ceremony and its consummation, then is shocked when more men arrive her father, very much alive, and her brothers. Furious that she has wed their enemy, they leave in disgust. Ian departs as well, but returns a few months later to claim his wife. While on their journey to join his clan, she finds that their marriage really did prevent a war but, for reasons unknown, someone is now threatening her life. With its feisty heroine, sensitive hero and numerous sex scenes, this book should satisfy Fletcher's fans, but others may be disturbed by her hero and heroine's anachronistic behavior (Ian's assurances to Moira that he'll always "be there" for her and her relentlessly defiant attitude toward him). (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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