Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Today I review Loki , by Keira Montclair, book One in The Highland Clan series. Pages -  208  Publisher -  Keira Montclair  Published -  December 1, 2015 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Series -  Book One of Eleven in The Highland Clan  Genre -  Historical Romance, Scottish Medieval Language -  1/5 Sexual Content -  3/5 Narrative -  3rd P A warrior with a haunted past and the lass who vows to love him forever. Loki Grant’s first memories are of living in a crate behind an inn in Ayr, struggling to survive. Clan Grant saved him from his lonely existence and took him in as one of their own. But though the Highlands have become his home and he loves his adopted parents, Brodie and Celestina, Loki feels lost. Part of him is still that scrappy wee lad who relied on his wits to survive the streets, and he is not sure he belongs. The feistiest and most beautiful lass in the clan, Arab...

Today I review His Highland Rose , a Prequel to the  His Highland Heart  series, by Willa Blair. Pages - 204  Publisher - Willa Blair Published - December 1, 2016 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Historical Romance / Medieval Scotch Highlands Language -  0/5 Sexual Content -  2/5 Narrative -  3rd P Iain Brodie is a fierce warrior and passionate lover, but to prove he’s responsible enough to follow his ailing father as the clan’s chief, he must give up the lasses and find a bride—quickly. He doesn’t expect to fall for any of the Rose chief’s three daughters, but he can’t get one out of his mind—or heart—even when he discovers she is not who she claims to be. Skilled rider and archer Annie Rose values her freedom. She doesn’t want to be anyone’s bride, not even deliciously and annoyingly sexy Iain Brodie’s. But her father wants an alliance with Iain’s clan and he’s chosen her to forge it. Unaware sh...

Today I'll be reviewing the First book in my 2018 Highlander Romance Novels reading challenge. Pages -  234  Published -  March 2, 2015 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Series -  Scottish Strife Book 1 of 5 Sub Genre -  Historical Romance, Medieval Language -  1/5 Sexual Content -  3/5 Narrative -  3rd P With their father nearing death, Rory MacGregon and his brothers fear the inevitable. But their hopes are renewed when the ailing man names a renowned Scottish healer who defected to England years ago. Rory crosses dangerous territory to obtain her help, only to discover that the gifted healer would rather kill herself than save his dying father. Rory gauges that kidnapping the woman is his only option when the healer's beautiful daughter appears. The spirited lass declares that she is also a healer, and offers to go in her mother's stead. Darra Berchelaine has heard many stories about the bloodthirsty...

Pages -  181  Published -  May 18, 2015 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -   Medieval Historical Romance Language -  0/5 Sexual Content -  3/5 Narrative -  3rd P Furious at being used as a political pawn, the Lady Dariana defies King Henry VII by faking her own death to avoid marrying a man she has never met. Praying the king will not retaliate against her father, she seeks refuge in the forest and learns to fend for herself. When William, a warrior knight, is felled by an arrow, she saves his life and arranges his rescue before fleeing to avoid discovery. William awakes from his injury to be told he imagined the beautiful woman in the forest. Besotted and determined to make her his own, he hunts her down and tricks her into marrying him, intent on turning her defiance into love. But even as he begins to succeed, their enemies join forces to end the marriage—even if it means that Dariana m...

Book One of Three Pages -  257 Publisher -  RoseScribe Media Inc. Published -  July 28, 2015 Sold by -   Amazon Digital Services LLC Series -  Barons of the Cinque Ports 1-3 Genre -  Historical Romance, Medieval Narrative -  3rd Person Sexual Content -  4/5 Language -  1/5 Nicholas Vaughn is Lord of New Romney and also a Baron of the Cinque Ports. He directs a fleet of ships that service the king 15 days a year in exchange for special privileges. When Muriel Draper causes havoc on his wharf, he realizes she is a spinster - a woman who spins wool for a living - from the town. Her late father has angered the Clothmaker's Guild and now Muriel and her brother have been excommunicated from the guild and also left with a debt to the baron that he insists Muriel repays. She can either give the baron her deceased mother's wedding ring - the only memory of her parents she has left - or she can live with him at his manor ...