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WolfeHeart by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWelcome to de Wolfe Pack Generations… grandsons of the great William de Wolfe. Meet Markus de Wolfe, Patrick “Atty” de Wolfe’s son… and he is every inch his father’s boy. The grandsons of William de Wolfe all bear the Mark of de Wolfe - a tattoo of the de Wolfe crest somewhere upon their body. It's a badge of honor, of courage, and most of all - of family. The Pack sticks together...Categorized as:
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DarkWolfe: Sons of de Wolfe by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFollowing a terrible tragedy that robbed him of his wife, the dark and fiery second son of the Wolfe of the Border finds solace in battle.... Quick to temper, and an aggressive fighter, Troy de Wolfe is at the helm of his father’s army when it subdues a smaller castle south of Kelso. Assuming command, Troy is in the heart of Scots territory and the Scots aren’t happy about it one bit... -
Starless by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou met Achilles and Susanna in Book Two of the Executioner Knights series – and sparks flew! Now, read their endearing and touching love story in ‘Starless’! The third Executioner Knight is in for a world of trouble… Achilles de Dere is a stubborn knight prone to fighting - anywhere, anytime. If there is a punch to be thrown, it's usually from Achilles...Categorized as:
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Lord of Winter by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1187 A.D. - The call him the Great Defender. As Richard the Lionheart's most powerful general, Sir Juston de Royans is as moody as he is skilled. Reminiscent of the ancient warrior Achilles, Juston fights when it is necessary, instead choosing to command the powerful men beneath him... -
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The Savage Curtain by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe year is 1333 A.D. At the conclusion of the English victory of Halidon Hill, King Edward appoints Stephen of Pembury the Guardian Protector of the newly captured city of Berwick. To cement this victory, he orders Stephen to marry the defeated Scottish commander's daughter, the Lady Joselyn de Velt Seton... -
The Depths of Her Soul by Rebecca Ruger
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMarianna Sinclair has lived years in England, separated from her family and regarded only as an unpaid servant to her aunt and uncle. She is overjoyed when her brother comes to collect her, returning her to Scotland. Yet, her thrill is quickly diminished when she learns she's to wed the son of a local landowner, the detestable Walter Ramsay...Categorized as:
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The Claiming by Octavia Randolph
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSidroc the Dane has been in Angle-land for twelve years. The first nine were all hard fighting. He has won treasure beyond counting, and now peace for his men. But there is one thing he still desires…...Categorized as:
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The Thunder Knight: Book Three in the Lords of Thunder: The de Shera Brotherhood Trilogy by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1258 A.D. - Book Three in the Lords of Thunder: The de Shera Brotherhood Trilogy is the exciting conclusion to this bestselling collection by Medieval master author Kathryn Le Veque. In Book Three, the focus on Tiberius, the youngest de Shera brother, as he falls in love with the lovely Lady Douglass, the daughter of an enemy knight...Categorized as:
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Highlander Oath of the Beast by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA promise is a promise, and Raven keeps hers, no matter the cost.Five years ago, Raven of the Clan MacKinnon was forced to hide after the attack on her clan... -
Vikings by Emmanuelle de Maupassant, Ashe Barker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDare to enter our world A horde of battle-hardened, ferocious Nordic warriors. A Pictish village at the mercy of its enemies. A harrowing bargain struck for nine fearful and reluctant brides. Delivered into Viking hands, claimed and conquered, each bride must accept that she belongs to her new master... -
Netherworld by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1197 A.D. - Smarting from the loss of his betrothed, Sir Keller de Poyer has learned not to trust women. A bear of a man with a brilliant mind, Keller is socially awkward but an accomplished knight. He is so accomplished in fact that his liege, William Marshal, gifts the man with lands in Wales for his meritorious service... -
Scorpion: Saxon lords of Hage/De Wolfe Pack by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1289 A.D. - Sir Kevin Hage, stinging over the loss of the object of his affections to the Welsh warrior known as the Serpent, drowns himself in warfare in order to forget his heartache. He travels to The Levant to fight the Muslim infidels, transforming himself in the process. He becomes hardened, brutal, and heroic and returns to England a changed man, an English assassin known as the Scorpion...Categorized as:
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The White Lord of Wellesbourne by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1485 A.D. Adam Wellesbourne and his four sons - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - comprise the most feared House in the service of Richard III. Adam’s eldest son, Matthew, has earned such an influential reputation that throughout England he is known as The White Lord of Wellesbourne... -
Highlander The Dark Dragon by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHeather Macinnes is finally safe at home, her two sisters there to offer comfort. She escaped the notorious ghost warriors and thankfully never laid eyes on their leader the Dark Dragon. Her ordeal is done. However, she learns only too soon that her ordeal is far from done...it is just beginning... -
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The Touch of Her Hand by Rebecca Ruger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor more than a decade, while the First War of Scottish Independence rages, fierce warrior Conall MacGregor has dreamed of the revenge he will have against the man who robbed him of his family and home. To this end, he abducts the daughter of his enemy, hoping to force a marriage and reclaim what is rightfully his...Categorized as:
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The Redeeming by Tamara Leigh
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsALT Cover ASIN: B00CZ1CYM4IN THE EYES OF THE CHURCH AND MEN, HERS IS NO SMALL SINLady Gaenor Wulfrith is a woman scorned. And King Henry’s pawn. After three broken betrothals, she is ordered to wed her family’s enemy, a man she has never met and has good reason to fear...Categorized as:
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Guardian of Darkness by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1200 A.D.After decades of warring between the Lairds of Kerr and Prudhoe Castles in Northumbria, a tentative peace is reached. The Lady Carington Kerr is sent to Prudhoe as a hostage to ensure her father’s good behavior, and a more reluctant hostage there never was.Small and dark, with emerald eyes and a luscious figure, she is as gorgeous as she is fiery. Enter Sir Creed de Reyne...Categorized as:
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Highland Bride by Hannah Howell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThough she has yet to be courted by any man, spirited Gillyanne Murray decides the time has come to visit the dower lands gifted to her by her father's kinsmen. She arrives to find the small keep surrounded by three lairds, each one vying for her hand...and property...Categorized as:
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Highland Oath by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTragedy is about to hit the MacKinnon family and change their lives forever. Royden MacKinnon oldest of the three MacKinnon siblings has loved Oria, the daughter of a neighboring chieftain as long as he can remember. He wants no other woman, needs no other woman, has been with no other woman... -
The Love of Her Life by Rebecca Ruger
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlec MacBriar crashes into the cottage of a healer and drops his wounded captain onto the table, commanding that the woman save his friend. Katie Oliver is terrified of the giants in her small home, but has no choice but to comply, hoping only to tend the wounded man and send them on their way, praying they cause no trouble to her or her son... -
Highland Heartbreaker by Julie Johnstone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fallen hero. A jilted lass. A game of treachery they may not survive.The day Elena MacLeod’s arrow pierced Rolland MacKay’s arse, she fell in love with the ruggedly handsome Scot, despite her better judgment. After all, he was known as the Highland Heartbreaker. Given that, it should have come as no surprise when he disappeared without a trace before they were to be wed...Categorized as:
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Lord of Light by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1192 A.D. - Sir Roane de Garr is a member of St. John the Baptist Hospitaller sect and while visiting the supposed Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, he is hit by a freak bolt of lightning and suddenly finds himself with miraculous healing powers. The Hospitallers believe he is a heretic and must be destroyed, so he flees back to England and into seclusion as a bounty is put on his head... -
The Silent Highlander by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll is not what it seems. Don’t trust anyone. The warning comes too late for Elysia.Alone and frightened, Elysia hurries to do as her two sisters urged: ask Saber, who works one of the crofts, to wed her. She favors him and believes he feels the same about her. His throat is healing from an injury, and his voice is slowly returning, with her help...Categorized as:
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When a Highlander Weds a Hellion by Julie Johnstone
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow far will he go to belong? Fierce, famed Highland warrior Broch MacLeod has always been a bastard—until one day he isn’t. And now that he’s discovered his real family, he intends to do whatever it takes to carve a place for himself in it, including wedding the lass known as the Hellion of the Highlands... -
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Pledged to a Highlander by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter being away, unwillingly, for five years, Royden MacKinnon returns home a far different man.Royden doesn't know what he'll find. He knows his brother, Arran, is still alive, but what about his father, his sister, Raven, and most of all, what about the woman he loves... Oria... -
Tender is the Knight by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1228 A.D. – After a vicious battle with old adversaries that sees his father killed, Sir Dennis d’Vant finds himself the head of the House of d’Vant. A house descended from the kings of Cornwall, they are a proud but warring people. Their most hated enemy is their neighbor to the north, the rich and cunning Earl of Cornwall...Categorized as:
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The Legend by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1270 A.D. An epic story of loss, love and redemption. On the Seventh Crusade, Sir Alec Summerlin makes a horrible mistake that costs him everything. Once the greatest swordsman in the realm, he lays his weapon down and refuses to ever wield a broadsword again. Surrendering his spurs, he retires to his father's castle in self-imposed exile... -
Bound Through Time: Past by Twyla Turner
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElliot Allen has known nothing but loss in her life. Becoming an orphan twice over, she has no one and fills her lonely days living vicariously through the adventurous stories of love in the historical romance novels she adores... -
The Dark Lord by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe year is 1180 A.D. And times are very dark. England is lawless for the most part and the people live in fear. Rising to power during this time is the vicious and brutal knight Ajax de Velt. His mission is to conquer a large stretch of the Scots and Welsh border, commandeering wealth and property along the way...Categorized as:
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To Love A Highlander by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHis hate runs deep for her. Will his love run just as deep? Craven of the Clan MacCara is a fierce Highland warrior, fighting endless battles and conquering his foe, but there is nothing the mighty warrior can do to save his wife and unborn child. He can, however, make the person responsible for their deaths suffer for it...Categorized as:
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Knight in Highland Armor: Scottish Historical Romance by Amy Jarecki
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGrieving from the death of his wife, Lord Colin Campbell listens to the cries of his newborn son whilst penning a missive to the king. With no marriage prospects, Colin petitions his majesty for help in finding a stepmother. Never again will he fall in love—the death of a woman brings more pain than losing a whole contingent of men on the battlefield...Categorized as:
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Entrusted to a Highlander by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnce upon a time, Purity, of the Clan Macara, shy, plain, and with a deformed hand that everyone believes is the mark of the devil, begged handsome, charismatic, devil-may-care Arran of the Clan MacKinnon to wed her and save her from a fate she feared. He turned her down.Five years later, Arran returns home after being taken captive by a group of mercenaries and forced to fight alongside them...Categorized as:
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Highland Justice by Heather McCollum
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWithout mercy, there is no love in this third installment of the Sons of Sinclair historical romance series by award-winning author Heather McCollum.Gideon Sinclair, the third Sinclair brother, judges everything in stark terms of good and evil. There is nothing in between, and he is efficient at passing judgment without mercy... -
The Warrior Trilogy by Tina St. John, Lara Adrian
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDark, dangerous knights. Bold, beautiful ladies. Passionate, romantic adventure... -
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A Flame Put Out by Erin S. Riley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSelia’s saga continues in Book Two of the SONS OF ODIN series . . . As Selia struggles with the harsh reality of existence as the wife of a Viking berserker, a devastating loss pulls Alrik deeper into madness, while a secret Selia desperately wants to keep hidden comes to light, threatening everything she holds dear...Categorized as:
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Oath Breaker by Erin S. Riley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe exciting conclusion of the Sons of Odin trilogy: Sometimes the right man has been there all along… Selia has fled Norway and her Viking berserker husband to protect her children from his rages. His brother Ulfrik, having long loved Selia from afar, offers his protection. As Selia uncovers the man he is, love blossoms in her heart where there was only emptiness...Categorized as:
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Battle Eagle by Jayne Castel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBitterness has made him cruel—only she can save him. Eithni believes herself too damaged to ever find love, and Donnel vows he will never love again. Can they find their way out of the darkness together? A healer upon Dark Ages Isle of Skye, Eithni enjoys her life with the tribe of The Eagle...Categorized as:
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The Highlander's Viking Bride: Book 2 in the Hardy Heroines series by Cathy MacRae, D.D. MacRae
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCalder MacGerry, laird of an impoverished clan, has resolved to end the bitter feud between the MacGerrys and Sinclairs. He jumps at Laird Sinclair’s offer of marriage to his only daughter, Katja, to seal the agreement between their clans—only to get more than he bargained for. Katja’s chance to escape her father’s harsh treatment appears to be too good to be true...Categorized as:
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Unmasking the Curse by Chelle Cypress
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLoathed and feared. Sold into a hateful marriage. Can she escape a prison to embrace her power and unexpected love?Arianna Park is resigned to misery. Bound to an enchanted porcelain mask to contain a devastating curse, she’s set to wed a venomous man for the sake of her destitute family... -
Arrowsmith by Elina Emerald
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the King's Man in the North, Ewan Arrowsmith walks a fine line between life and death. Deceit and treachery are his constant companions. But there was a time, long ago, when he only knew truth and the love of a good woman called Beth.Their affair was brief due to a betrayal that led to tragedy...Categorized as:
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You, and No Other by Cynthia Wright
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I find that I am in love with Mademoiselle de Fleurance," said St. Briac to the King. "I came here to ask her to be my wife." What a thrill to hear those words from him! Yet Aimee was certain that he spoke them out of pity, not love. St. Briac knew that only his own marriage proposal could keep the king from seducing her -- a fate she was desperate to avoid...Categorized as:
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Highland Betrayal by Alyson McLayne
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLaird Callum MacLean vowed to marry Maggie MacDonnell. But when his father's supposed suicide makes him Laird of a clan, he's too busy unmasking his father's killer to bring her into his dangerous new home. Maggie's home isn't any safer, so she does what any resourceful Highland lass would do. She escapes―and finds herself toe-to-toe with Callum, who's determined to fulfill his promise...Categorized as:
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The Devil to Pay by K.C. Bateman, Kate Bateman
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsItaly, 1492.A ruthless mercenary skilled in the art of conquest. An heiress who refuses to be tamed. The Devil’s own bargain . . . Cara di Montessori has a price upon her head. Her traitorous uncle has murdered her father and seized her home. Her only hope of survival, and of regaining her birthright, is an alliance with her childhood nemesis, the infamous mercenary Il Diavolo... -
The Bewitched Viking by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBEWITCHED, BOTHERED, AND BEWILDERED ...Even fierce Norse warriors have bad days. Holy Thor! 'Twas enough to drive a sane Viking mad, the things Tykir Thorksson was forced to do --- capturing a redheaded virago, putting up with the flock of sheep that followed her everywhere, chasing off her bumbling brothers... -
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To Wed a Highlander by Michele Sinclair
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn Arranged Marriage. . . Makenna Dunstan has never needed a man's protection before. But when her father's failing health places the safety of the clan in her hands, she has no choice but to marry Colin McTiernay. Fearing the emotions Colin awakens within her, she finds herself succumbing too easily to his lingering kisses and warm caresses... -
The Beast of Renald: The Northern Knights Series by Amber Dane
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA widow with a treasure trove of secrets... A brooding and reclusive Norman Warrior... Lady Caroline, widowed with her son by her side is devastated when she is forcefully wed to the king's man known as The Beast. She'd survived one loveless marriage, she could survive another...Categorized as:
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Highlander's True Love: A Cree & Dawn Short Story by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the birth of the twins, Cree and Dawn have been busy and longing for some private time together. When it appears they just may finally have it, Cree is summoned to the Great Hall. He is not only angry that his time with his wife has been interrupted, but that a woman demands to see him...Categorized as:
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The Edge of Light by Joan Wolf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe beautiful Elswyth, Princess of Mercia, is a woman-child already promised to a lord of the realm. Young Prince Alfred, fifth son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex, never dreamed he would don the crown of Britain, though he was destined to become its greatest king... -
The Viking's Daughter by Marti Talbott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt fourteen, Catrina MacGreagor was left to care for her nine siblings after her mother passed. She didn't truly mind, for she loved them all dearly, but the work was hard as well as boring, and it left her little time to consider a husband. It was just as well, for she had not yet seen a lad she truly favored...Categorized as:
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Beloved Viking by Ree Thornton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe shield-maiden must marry… Heir to her father’s Jarldom, Rúna Isaksson will soon ascend to replace him as leader, but first she must marry a warrior from another clan to form a powerful alliance. When her father creates a contest to determine the strongest suitor, Rúna demands to compete as well—if she wins, she can choose her own husband...Categorized as:
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