Wild Wicked Scot
This novel’s title reveals its genre. A rough-around-the-edges Scottish laird marries a delicate English lady at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion. Their turbulent relationship is complicated by the possibility that her father is using the marriage in some political or financial scheme of his own. After a few weeks young Lady Margot abandons her passionate husband and returns to her family home. However, she is persuaded by her father to return to her laird and his castle in the Scottish wilderness to monitor his possibly traitorous connections with France.
The couple easily resumes their passionate lovemaking but struggles to develop a fuller, trusting relationship, as each suspects the other of using the marriage for their own dubious purposes. The climax sees the ultimate betrayal at Lady Margot’s home back in England.
The title of this book is a little misleading. It is stretching a point to say that the Scotsman —the laird Arran Mackenzie—is either wicked or wild. However, both he and Lady Margot are engagingly vulnerable at a time when forces beyond their control seem to direct their lives. Can they together overcome the fate that awaits them in England? A pleasant read, with many plot twists.
