Highlander in Love

Name: Highlander in Love
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Julia London
ISBN: 9798855564648

Author: Julia London

Series: Lockhart Family Trilogy

Narrator: Susan Duerden

Unabridged: 10 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/28/2025

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

The Lockhart brothers' quest for an ancient family heirloom has proved fruitless . . . and an unpaid loan has left them indebted to their rival, Payton Douglas. With no recourse, the Lockharts offer Payton their most valuable commodity: their sister Mared's hand in marriage.

Raised to despise the Douglas name, Mared outwardly agrees to the marital bargain for the sake of her family; secretly, she concocts a plan to ensure Payton will not wish to marry her. Seeing the handsome, virile laird Payton face-to-face, however, threatens a centuries-long enmity—and awakens Mared's deepest desires. But she will not be swayed. Choosing to repay her family's debt by working as his housekeeper instead of wedding him, she finds herself inexorably drawn to the man she vowed to resist. Then a profound discovery changes everything . . . Now, no longer bound by a promise to her family, Mared must let her heart decide if the laird Payton is the enemy of past legend—or if he holds the key to a future filled with a passion beyond her wildest dreams.

Contains mature themes.

About Julia London

Julia London is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of numerous romance and women's fiction novels. She is also the recipient of the RT Bookclub Award for Best Historical Romance and a four-time finalist for the prestigious RITA award for excellence in romantic fiction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Veri on July 29, 2014

Oh the angst in this book!! I'm torn as to saying it was good or bad so I will list what I liked and what I didn't : The good: -The hero Payton is The most besotted hero I have EVER read . He makes Edward Cullen seem lukewarm in his affections for Bella - the setting was great -no issues with one main......more

Goodreads review by WhiskeyintheJar on October 12, 2010

First, I feel the need to remark on this series book covers; very nice, some might say yummy. Anyway, I think I am really going to like Payton Douglas. Already in the first and second chapters I find myself sighing (in a good way) and smiling at his thoughts. I love how Ms. London shows how Payton a......more

Goodreads review by Kimberly on May 07, 2013

Mared Lockhart is supposedly cursed daughter of the Lockhart family and she wants to be free of it and to travel to places that know nothing of her curse. But unfortunately she can do neither until she looks in the belly of the beast and until the Lockhart pays it loan debt to Payton Douglas. They l......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on April 22, 2012

This book was quite different in that the hero understood from before the book opened that he loved the heroine and wanted no one but her. A great version of Taming of the Shrew...I really enjoyed the whole book!......more

Goodreads review by ChloeLeeNH on March 11, 2008

Best of the trilogy. I loved Payton. Never wavering in his complete love of Mared. Sigh... how romantic!......more