Reckless by Hannah Howell

This is my favorite Hannah Howell book yet and I have read most of them. The characters were dynamiby fog

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February 05, 2009: I loved the chemistry between the two main characters. There was such conflict between the two, yet a great intensity. I loved Alex from his previous introduction in another novel. Yet the Alex in this novel isn't who he started out to be which was very sad. I came back around to loving him by the end. I also love the fact that the female wasn't helpless and had spunk. The villain of the book was so evil that you really were in suspense. Great book!

I Also Recommend: Shadow Music, A Dangerous Love (Border Chronicles Series #1), Secret, Highland Captive.

fine historical taleby harstan

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August 28, 2004: In 1375 her uncle Coln who murdered her father, the laird of clan MacFarlane, sees Ailis as an asset to be bartered in obtaining an alliance with the MacCordys. Coln does not care that she raises the three children of her dead sister Maire, whose father remains unknown and that he selected the abusive Donald MacCordy as her spouse.---- Alexander, laird of clan MacDubh, learns from his depressed brother Barra that he has three children with Maire that he has not seen in years. Alexander believes the kids should be raised amongst the love of their father?s clan. They abduct the three children, their guardian Ailis, and a gentle giant willing to die to keep the four safe. Ailis worries that her clan?s enemy will destroy the children, but instead sees them showered in love and even her giant protector treated with kindness unlike how her uncle has handled the children. As Ailis and Alexander fall in love, both knows that the MacFarlane and MacDubh must react, but when and how is still to be seen.---- Though her uncle and her intended are too odious to be competitive to the caring though brooding Alexander, fans of Scottish medieval romances will receive plenty of reading pleasure with this strong tale. The clever propaganda mechanisms that paint the Macdubhs as bloodthirsty barbarians amongst the MacFarlanes would fit in well in today?s 527 ways to say truth during the presidential race. The story line moves forward at a rapid pace as Alexander and Ailis battle with each other and within themselves in a fine historical tale.---- Harriet Klausner