Never Love a Highlander

By: Maya Banks

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

Caelen McCabe's young, reckless heart nearly destroyed his clan. Now, putting family loyalty above all else, he steps up to marry his older brother's jilted bride and salvage the uneasy alliance between two clans. While beautiful Rionna McDonald is a fit wife for any man, Caelen trusts no woman, especially not this sweet temptress who torments him with white-hot longing.

As the sacrificial lamb in her father's power game, Rionna will do her duty but vows to protect her heart and her pride from humiliation. Despite everything, though, the heat in Caelen's touch melts her defenses, and she craves the sensual delights of a husband who guards his emotions as fiercely as his clan. But when the ultimate battle for the McCabe legacy is upon them, Rionna's true warrior spirit emerges. She will risk the wrath of her father, the fury of her enemies, and her life to prove to Caelen that his wife's love is too precious to lose.

©2011 Maya Banks (P)2012 Tantor

Critic reviews

"Banks nicely balances bedroom and battlefield action as Rionnas tough swordsmanship and Caelens tender lust propel the couple and the clans toward harmony." ( Publishers Weekly)

Sensual and more

A wonderful tale, combined with both brief and lingering intimate moments that delight, and enhance a beautiful story. Well done

Caelen and Rionna

Third book in the series. It features the final brother, Caelen, who has sworn to never care about a woman again, and never to marry, Caelen's first love betrayed the McCabe clan and caused the death of the father, and many men, women and children at the hands of Cameron. But the book begins with Caelen's wedding to Rionna McDonald. . .The only reason Caelen married Rionna is that his first two brothers rejected her for other women and one of the McCabe brothers must marry her in order to secure an alliance with the McDonalds. The King is demanding the alliance so that they can defeat the evil Cameron who is in league with another Laird to overthrow the crown. Rionna is a small beautiful woman, but she is also a deadly warrior that can fight and defeat any man with her sword and skill. Upon their marriage, Rionna and Caelen move to the McDonald castle where Caelen has now been named the Laird because the former Laird, who is Rionna's father, was dishonorable and worthless. Caelen must train the McDonald men to be skilled warriors such as the McCabe men. The McDonalds resist obeying Caelen as Laird, but they love Rionna. There is much discord. Rionna and Caelen have tremendous desire for one another even if Caelen cannot love a woman because of the betrayal. The saga finally comes to an end in this book with the battle between the good guys and the evil Cameron.

The book is interesting but I gave it four stars, as I did the first two books, because it goes over the top sometimes with the big strong warriors yelling to everyone in the clan about their love for the women they have chosen. Very silly thing and very out of character for a highland Laird. However they are engaging books with interesting and likable characters along with well written intimate scenes.

So loved this book.

Fantastic love story! nice balance. Terrific battle scenes . great suspense
perfect family dynamic

Such a Sweet Story

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it has all the elements necessary to keep the reader wanting more. It may be my favorite adventure yet.

Emotional and riveting

I love these stories. I find myself crying and yelling at characters and even feeling heartbroken. I can do without the detailed spicy parts since they're all the same routine and also in some places violent and disgusting. over all, these are great escapes from everyday troubles.

Absolutely loved this one!

What a great conclusion to this Highlander series. Maya Banks does it again! Admittedly I was doubtful with book 1, but books 2 & 3 definitely pulled through as winners. I so enjoyed Caelon and Rionna's story; Rionna was a fabulous heroine and I loved the relationship between she and Caelon and how it develops. This is a shorter story than the others but it packs a punch throughout, giving you romance,action and humor. If you're looking for a sweet historical romance, this is a good series to purchase.. Loved it...highly recommended.

I'm so sad this series ended :(

Just the perfect ending to a perfect series. Wonderful!
Thank you Maya and Kristin. Such a successful audio couple.

Loved this finale

Finally Rionna gets her HEA!! Rionna and Caelan's book was a really enjoyable book to listen to. KP has really outdone herself in this series! Loved her scottish burr.

Rionna had been passed up by Ewain, Ulrich and finally Caelan raised his hand to sacrifice himself in the bid to gain Laird MacDonalds alliance with the McCabes. I felt bad for Rionna, but she held her own. She was a fighter, but she had a good and loyal heart. She was a great match for the youngest and most scarred MaCabe.

I don't know if any of the prior women could have penetrated his defenses after his first love betrayed him and devastated his life.

I had so hoped that Maya Banks would write a book on Gannon because he had to babysit 3 Mccabe women. Even Cormack got his girl, why not Gannon?

I hope the author revists this series sometime soon.

Loved all 3 books

I enjoyed the story and the characters. I even cried on book 2! The narrator is awesome. And the books were steamy and exciting. Will definitely look for more books by Maya Banks.

Truly enjoyable

I’ve read all three in this series twice before. Hearing it was even better. I’m a big fan of historical romance, especially Scottish highlands stories. This series was my first digital stories read and since I’ve been hooked.