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Category: HISTORICAL

 

 

Product Details

Reviewed by ChristineRCJR

 

Book Heat: SCORCHING HOT

ISBN-13: 9780062031662

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date: 2/28/2012

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Pages: 384

Sales rank: 249,599

Product dimensions: 4.18 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 0.96 (d)

 

 

Overview

 London gossips are asking: What use has society of an exclusive gentleman's club if no gentlemen are ever seen to pass through its door?

After years as an agent of the secret Falcon Club, Lord Leam Blackwood knows it's time to return home to Scotland. One temptation threatens his plans—Kitty Savege, who warms his blood like a dram of fine whiskey. But a dangerous enemy stands in the way of desire, and to beat this foe Leam needs Kitty's help . . .

 Kitty never wanted to spend her holidays in a wretched country village! With snow up to the windows, escape is nowhere in sight. A roguish Scottish lord, however, is. His rough brogue sends heat from Kitty's frigid toes to her chilled nose, but she's confident she can withstand that. What she cannot control is the reaction of her guarded heart when she discovers this beast is no beast at all . . .

 

 WHEN A SCOT LOVES A LADY by Katharine Ashe

 

REVIEW

Katharine Ashe is a virtuoso in the historical romance world. I would be hard-pressed not to enlighten readers that Katharine Ashe has the Midas touch when it comes to the written word. Everything she writes turns to gold! Ashe has given readers a spectacular start to her heart-wrenching Falcon Club series which kicks off in this staggeringly intense love story, WHEN A SCOT LOVES A LADY, being released this month by Avon Romance.

Paying the ultimate price with her innocence and naiveté a few years back, Lady Katharine “Kitty” Savege has placed herself in an unbreachable position.  That is, until the day a dark brooding lord walks into her world, setting it topsy-turvy.

On a mission for the clandestine Falcon Club to retrieve a missing person, the roguish widower, Lord Uilleam (Leam) Blackwood, is struck straight to the heart when he comes into contact with the bewitching Lady Kitty Savege. That night Leam begins to feel the unfamiliar stirrings of longing he had buried away so long ago.

Three years later he finds himself stranded in the small village of Shropshire by a snow storm. He comes face to face with the one woman who has haunted his every waking and sleeping moment. Blackwood is bound to stay focused and avoid the attraction that crackles between them as he finishes this last assignment for the Falcon Club.

Kitty once believed in love and gave herself to the wrong man. Her subsequent spinsterhood and not having a family of her own are things Kitty has come to accept.  Never in her wildest dreams did she imagine falling in love with the tortured Scot who still mourns the loss of his young wife. She is no longer the foolish young woman obsessed with revenge, willing to be used to save her brother. What she is, is a woman inexplicably drawn to this barbaric Scot with the deep, dark eyes that call to her. She could be jumping straight from the frying pan and into a fire that will engulf her in scorching flames, hurting her more deeply than she’s ever been hurt before. For a night in his arms, Kitty will chance anything…even her heart.

Saying I love WHEN A SCOT LOVES A LADY is akin to a chocoholic saying she likes chocolate. Just as with chocolate, once readers have a copy of WHEN A SCOT LOVES A LADY, they will devour every deliciously decadent morsel, nibbling every crumb, licking the tips of their fingers making sure they get every bit.  

I’m always asked to find one particular element from a book that draws me the most.  Here I go. The main and absolute and complete draw for reading WHEN A SCOT LOVES A LADY is the book as a whole. It doesn’t hurt that Leam Blackwood is an uber alpha hero who is one of the most tormented and tortured heroes about whom I have read.  Our heroine, Lady Kitty Savege, is just as tormented and, perhaps, more tortured than our hero. I would even go so far to say they are one of my favorite ultimate romance couples.  Neither is hard on the eyes. Leam’s brooding and his Scottish brogue are enough to make the reader a bit breathless. That man sure can roll his R’s.

 As a reader and as a writer, I need a character driven plot. I need characters that leap off the page, grab my hand, and pull me into their stories. I never want to feel as if I am a voyeur, but instead, an active participant. Ashe is masterful at blending intoxicating imagery with poignant characterization so that not once did I feel I was just reading a book. Ashe has this unique way of making readers feel as if she is placing them in the heart of the story. In short, Ashe makes readers feel like family and not bystanders. Is there a single character that pops out at me? I would say no. This is due to Ashe’s adeptness at creating such pivotal characters that readers engage with all of them.

 WHEN A SCOT LOVES A LADY is a powerful love story that basically rips my heart out to the point I am still feeling the aftershocks as I sit writing this review. There are far better and more colorful words to describe the soul wrenching agony that Ashe puts her readers through time and again. Simply stated, Ashe is a writer who takes a reader’s breath away. Ashe is brilliant at bringing her characters’ flaws to the surface, unveiling them with such depth and genuine humility, that readers will want to reach through the pages to enter her fantastic world of splendid sensuality. 

Gripping, engaging, sublime, and stupendous are only a few words I always find myself using when I write about a book by Katharine Ashe. Her books are filled with an undeniable love, with arresting characters, and with plots that twist and turn, keeping a reader bound to the pages from beginning to end. A book by Ashe is a perfect slice of heaven here on earth: MAGICAL.   

 

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