This is the third book in this collection of books in the series that I just finished. It was a very good book with great character building, a detailed fleshed out story as well as appearances from characters from the previous novels (since they're family now, but don't live together). This story follows the lives of Colin MacBrodie and Seana (H/h). The following is a short summation (some spoilers) of my interpretation of this romance novel. Seana has no clan, as she and her father live in a creagh (caves) that is located on three different clan families property (MacLean, MacBrodies, MacKinnon). From the story, Seana's mother died after she was born (childbirth difficulties) and she and her father, Donal the drunk, moved from their house to these caves to live in, after she died because he couldn't stand for people to give condolences about his wife, or how he makes a living, how and where he tends to his whiskey, or how he raised his daughter. Donal tends his still (in a secret location) and sells it to the locals for their livelihood. By his namesake, he drinks more than he sells a lot of the time (as he tastes what he creates like all people do that creates food/beverage for people). Donal is all she has and he loves her and she him. The story of Colin MacLean and Seana starts (for her at least) when they are children. She has a birth defect and is bullied and taunted and teased by the other children in the clans. Everyone (boys and girls) love Colin, as he is everything the boys want to be (gorgeous, gregarious, good at everything) and the girls want him for their own anyway they can have him and do (he gets quite the reputation as he gets older). He just has that vibe (bad boy) that some guys instinctively have. A very bad incident happens when they are young, and she never forgives him or forgets him. Seana also meets/makes friends with his (Colin's) best friend, Broc Ceannfhionn (means blonde in Gaelic). He is big/tall for his age and ends up being Seana's champion throughout childhood and beyond.
When Seana gets older, her father is getting ill and she wants to get married, so that her father will have some where to lay his head that is not the cold, hard ground. She wants to have a house to live in for her father. It's drafty and cold in the cairn and it is making him wheeze, fatigued, and feeble. The sunlight hurts his eyes, so he can't make his secret family recipe of uisge beatha ( handed down for generations). He has taught Seana how to make it with the still, when he is too ill to get up from his pallet on the ground and make it his self.
Seana gets the idea that she wants to marry Broc but he doesn't look/like her in that way. She doesn't know what to do about it. The story is about what happens when she wants to approach his best friend (Colin), for help to go about this, but they haven't seen each other since "the incident" in their childhood and he doesn't remember her. What ensues is a great romantic story that I, for one, will never forget. It is really touching. All of the clans get involved at the end for a mystery that answers questions that some might have had at the end of the first book. Oh, BTW, no spoilers but my fave scene is near the end and their plan that the women come up with is so freakin' hilarious!! I can just imagine that happening! I cheered at the end. I'm on to the next book. I would recommend this book. It is for adults due to sexual scenarios. They can be read as stand alone, as the author does a good job of filling the reader in on what they might have missed in the other books, but you WILL definitely have a much more enriched reading experience if you read them in order, IMO. Cheers...
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