Raine Balkera - Romance Author

The cover is all that is enjoyable about this book. Pages -  335  Publisher -  Oliver-Heber Books; 9 edition Published -  January 15, 2014 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Series -  Guardians of the Stone Book 2 of 5 Genre -  Historical Romance Narrative -  3rd Person Sexual Content -  1/5 Language -  1/5 The year is 1123. Scotland's King David seeks an alliance with the fierce mountain Scot, Aidan dun Scoti. But only one woman will tempt Aidan--the accursed beauty whose father once betrayed his clan ... Offered in marriage by David of Scotland as a guise for peace and cursed by Aidan's people for the sins of her father, Lìleas MacLaren is the one woman Aidan believes he is immune to. Alas, she is also the one woman who might bring the fierce chieftain to his knees. I had a very difficult time engaging with this one. And, I'm guessing this was likely written for the Middle S...

Well, I've decided to do something silly this year as far as Reading goes. While browsing my extensive Kindle library the other night, it occurred to me that a few patterns emerged both Title and Content-wise. A running theme that caught my eye had to do with HIGHLANDERS and SCOTTISH HIGHLANDER ROMANCES. And no, I've neither read nor watched the Outlander series. That doesn't mean a few of my Highlander-themed novels won't be about time-travel, but all will be about Love and/or Romance to some extent. Because that's what I read and write about... Romance. While 2017 started out promising for me, and I had worked hard on my 3rd Romance novel (of the Contemporary variety), about a 1/4 of the way through (say around April or May) I stopped writing and starting reading in earnest. 2018 has to be different, and I want to switch that around to read this year I will WRITE far more than I read... even if I do read every night before bed. I just need to ...