Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Today, I review Love of a Highlander, by Katy Baker, Book Four in her Five-Book Series, Arch Through Time. Pages -  213  Published -  July 28, 2017 Sold by - Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Historical Romance, Fantasy, Scottish Time Travel Series -  Arch Through Time (Four of Five) Language -  3/5 Sexual Content -  4/5 Narrative -  3rd P Maya Charles trusts no one. Having been abandoned by her parents as a child, it’s a lesson she’s learned the hard way. Now, having graduated from art college saddled with debt, she’s struggling to make ends meet. When a strange old woman gives her a cryptic message offering help, she scoffs at the idea: other people can’t be trusted, right? But when a sixteenth century warrior appears out of nowhere to save her life she might just be forced to challenge that assumption. Lachie MacFarlane is sick of his life. As the laird’s nephew his duty is clear: the clan comes before al...

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 Hamish , by L. L. Muir -- Book 28 in her The Ghosts of Culloden Moor series. Pages -  155  Published -  March 27, 2017 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Historical Romance, Scottish, Time Travel Series -  #28 in The Ghosts of Culloden Moor Language -  3/5 Sexual Content -  2/5 Narrative -  3rd P Have you ever been tempted to sit patiently on a Scottish hillside to see what--or whom--the mist might bring? With violin in hand, Samantha MacKord sets out to do just that. But when a Highlander appears, she realizes it might be her music, and not the mist, that lured him to her. Unfortunately, he's not the only one who's been listening... Hamish Farquharson is ready for a holiday and a rich woman to spend it with, but the witch isn't thinking about his needs. Instead, she sends him on a complicated rescue mission to save three abandoned children. And in a cruel twist, he's given ...

Hi, there! This is Week 16 of the MFRW Author Blogs 52-Week Blog Challenge , and this week's topic is: Family, Friends, and Pets I've Written Into My Books. My immediate response is NONE, but something tells me I included my first dog in my first novel, and it probably sounds even worse that I don't remember, right? I know it is a dog that finally brings my H & h together near the ending, but I don't recall if I used Yukon or just a random doggy to do the job. Elelur.com Anyway, it isn't that I don't like the idea of using people I know and inserting them into my stories. For me, it just isn't Romance-inducing to think about Family, if that makes any sense to you dear readers. Thinking about my mom or dad while writing a Romance novel is counter-productive... the same way thinking about either one of them during sex would be. Right? However, and more and more, I've come to like the idea of slipping myself or someone I...

Pages -  418  Publisher -  Bookbinder Press  Published -  May 23, 2014 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Historical Romance/Highlander Series -  Highland Soldiers Book One of Four Language -  1/5 Sexual Content -  0/5 Narrative -  3rd P Only an enemy soldier could save her life–and her heart. Highlander Callum MacDonell battled lowland Covenanters at the service of the King. Now charged with hunting an assassin, his journey will lead not to justice, but to a murderer’s passionate Covenanter sister, Mari McEwan. Betrayed and abandoned by the man she loved, Mari faces judgment by a tribunal of her people demanding she name the father of her unborn child, or be exiled from her beloved home and family. Sick and trembling, she knows that she must refuse. And yet, if she does so, a cruel fate awaits her. Book 1 in the Highland Soldiers series, Scottish historical romances set during the t...

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...

A review of Highlander's Bride by Lexy Timms, a time-travel Historical Romance set in the Scottish Highlands. YES, he actually says Birthday Suit. Pages -  265  Publisher -  Dark Shadow Publishing Published - October 10, 2016 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Historical Romance/Time Travel/Scottish Highlands Series -  Moment in Time Book 1 of 5 Language -  0/5 Sexual Content -  4/5 Narrative -  3rd She shouldn’t be here… She can’t even recall how she got here. Except for the dream. Mya Boyle remembers the dream. She knows it’s somehow connected to her past, her present and the future. Mya woke one morning in a field, a stag grazing close by as if it didn’t even notice her. She lay bare, like a babe from the womb, except for a wool blanket wrapped around her tightly. A grown woman with no memory, no family, no money, nothing. Kayden McGregor found her while hunting. He was after the s...

My review of Samantha Holt's Her Highland Defender, a Scottish Highlander Historical Romance novel. Pages -  133  Published -  November 12, 2015 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Medieval, Historical Romance, Scottish Highlander Language -  0/5 Sexual Content -  3/5 Narrative -  3rd P While six thousand Scots follow Robert the Bruce to wage war on the English at Bannockburn, Blane Ross is fighting his own war—single-handedly. After the indiscriminate slaughter of his village at the hands of English mercenaries, he wants revenge. However, when he stops at a castle for information and rest, he doesn’t expect to come across a fierce, beautiful lass in sole charge. Desperate for help, Ceana rejoices at the arrival of this impressive stranger. Dealing with her errant younger sister and her eccentric mother while trying to protect their clan hasn’t been easy. With all the men joining to fight against the Engli...

Today I review The Highlander's Reluctant Bride, Book 2 in The Highlander's Bride series, by Cathy MacRae. The Highlander's Reluctant Bride Series -  The Highlander’s Bride series (Book Two) Amazon Kindle edition Pages -  318  Publisher -  Soul Mate Publishing  Published -  March 15, 2014 Genre -  Historical Romance, Scottish Highlands Language -  0/5 Sexual Content -  3/5 Determined to keep the Macrory clan’s holdings out of the clutches of the Lord of the Isles and marauding pirates, King Robert II sends his man, Lord Ranald Scott, to hold Scaurness Castle. There, Laird Macrory lays dying, awaiting word from his son who is missing on the battlefields of France. If the son is not found before the old laird dies, Ranald will take over as laird—and marry Laird Macrory’s headstrong daughter. Lady Caitriona sees no reason she cannot rule the clan in her brother’s stead, and is bitterly disappointed wit...

A very brief review of A. K. Michaels' The Reluctant Alpha, Book One of Six in her HighlandWolf Clan series. Pages -  269 Published - March 20, 2015 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Shifters, Werewolves, Contemporary Romance Series -  HighlandWolf Clan Series 1 of 6 Language -  5/5 Sexual Content -  4/5 Narrative - 3rd Born to be Alpha, Cameron Sinclair walks away from his birthright and Pack. He wants nothing to do with either as he builds his multi-billion dollar business. When summoned he reluctantly goes to the aid of his Uncle’s Pack. What he finds is danger, intrigue, heartache, and the chance of a different life. His instinct screams at him to walk away but his heart has other ideas. Come and join the Highland Wolf Clan and find out what’s in store for Cameron and his Highlanders. Book 1 in New York Times Bestselling Author, A K Michaels' contemporary fantasy romance series full of Alpha males, Highl...

Today, I review Ceci Giltenan's debut novel, Highland Solution, Book One in her Duncurra Series of Three Pages -  274 Publisher -  Duncurra, LLC; 2 edition Published -  June 5, 2014 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Series -  Duncurra, Book 1 of 3 Genre -  Medieval, Historical Romance, Scottish Highlands Language -  1/5 Sexual Content -  3/5 Narrative -  3rd Laird Niall MacIan needs Lady Katherine Ruthven’s dowry to relieve his clan’s crushing debt but he has no intention of giving her his heart in the bargain. Niall MacIan, a Highland laird, desperately needs funds to save his impoverished clan. Lady Katherine Ruthven, a lowland heiress, is rumored to be “unmarriageable” and her uncle hopes to be granted her title and lands when the king sends her to a convent. King David II anxious to strengthen his alliances sees a solution that will give Ruthven the title he wants, and MacIan the money he ...