The Blackguard of Windless Woods (Highlander: The Legends #5)

Rebecca Ruger

Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
4.50 · 8 ratings · 301 pages · Published: 30 Aug 2023
The Blackguard of Windless Woods by Rebecca Ruger
When her home in the borderlands is under siege by an army of English, and against her mother’s wishes, Eleanor Caldwell takes matters into her own hands. She steals away on horseback and heads straight to the detestable Baron Grandison, one of King Edward I’s most prominent knights, whose bid for her hand she recently refused—and not kindly. Having no other choice, she’ll have to promise her hand in return for his aid now in this dreadful hour. On the way she encounters Dougal Kildare in the ghostly windless woodland, a man who rarely met a wine he did not cherish, a woman he could not charm, or, more recently, a fight worthy of his sword. A once proud warrior, he is currently naught but the bastard and banished son of a Highland laird, having no sympathy for anyone else’s distress. Ah, but the desperate maiden awakens long-dead fires and Dougal finds himself insisting he will escort Eleanor through the night to the earl’s castle, where he recklessly upsets all her plans, deciding only over his dead body will he allow the flaxen-haired beauty to sacrifice herself on the altar of the baron’s depravity. Enraged for how he’d upset her plans—the only way to save her family and home—Eleanor still manages to bark out a huge laugh of disdain when the blackguard tells her he will eliminate the enemy from her doorstep, he and his wee band of unsavory misfits. Little choice she has but to trust the disreputable man, discovering in the process that there’s more at stake than the security of her home—her heart is in grave danger of being captured by the wickedly handsome and not quite-so-dishonorable knight. As with all the The Legends , The Blackguard of Windless Woods is a stand-alone novel. The characters from different books do sometimes interact, but these can be read in any order.
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