Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Today, I review When I Fall in Love , by Wendy Lindstrom, Book Seven in the Grayson Brothers series. Pages -  286 Publisher -  Rustic Studio Publishing Published -  January 3, 2016 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Historical Romance, Victorian Western Series -  Grayson Brothers, Book Seven Language -  1/5 Sexual Content -  1/5 Narrative -  3rd P The problem is that Nancy Mitchell can’t marry the man her father chose for her. Her only escape from the arrangement is to find another husband quick, so she concocts a desperate plan and agrees to become a mail order bride. When a drastic change in circumstances dumps her into the arms of Hal Grayson, a handsome grieving man who hates her family, she is forced to rethink her hastily made plan. Hal Grayson has just buried his brother. He doesn’t need any more surprises — especially a mail order bride that he didn’t order. But the beautiful and stron...

Today I review Highlander's Castle, Book One in the Highlander Heat series, by Joanne Wadsworth. Pages -  152 Published -  February 16, 2014 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Series -  Highlander Heat Book 1 of 7 Genre -  Historical Romance, Scottish, Time Travel Language -  2/5 Sexual Content -  5/5 Narrative -  3rd P Traveling through time...for a Highlander. Anne MacLeod's identical ancestor has made a wish on the Fairy Flag at Dunvegan Castle, one which sees the two young women swapping places in time and leaving Anne set to handfast with the very man her ancestor wished to escape. Only Anne sees the possibilities, because now she could change the future and ensure her parents never perished in the inferno which took their lives. Highland warrior Alex MacDonald has made an agreement to handfast with Anne in order to bring a halt to the feud raging between their clans. The last thing he expects though ...

Today I review Heartbreak and Honor by Collette Cameron, Book Three in the Highland Heather, Romancing a Scot series. Pages -  257  Publisher -  Soul Mate Publishing  Published -  December 2, 2015 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Historical, Regency Romance Series -  Highland Heather, Romancing a Scot #3 of 6 Language -  2/5 Sexual Content -  4/5 Narrative -  3rd P Would you risk your life to rescue a woman you don't know? Abducted by a band of renegade Scots, Highland gypsy Tasara Faas blackens her rescuer's eye when the charming duke attempts to steal a kiss. Afterward, Tasara learns she's the long-lost heiress Alexandra Atterberry and is expected to take her place among the elite society she's always disdained. Lucan, the Duke of Harcourt, promised his gravely ill mother he'd procure a wife by Christmastide, but intrigued by the feisty lass he saved in Scotland, he finds...

Today I review Taken by the Highlander by Julianne MacLean, another Highlander Historical Romance. Pages -  225  Publisher -  Julianne MacLean Publishing Inc.  Published -  December 26, 2015 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Historical, Highlander Romance Series -  The Highlander Series, Book 5 Language -  2/5 Sexual Content -  4/5 Narrative - 3rdP A WARRIOR WITH A SECRET Logan MacDonald, fierce warrior and bold scout for Angus the Lion, hides a shameful secret. When he arrives injured at a crofter’s cottage in Campbell territory during a secret mission for his laird, he is immediately suspected of treachery….  A WOMAN WITH A VISION When Mairi Campbell stumbles across the mysterious wounded Highlander in a moonlit glen—a member of an enemy clan—she is strangely beguiled and cannot resist the desire to unearth the secrets of his darkened soul. Soon, Mairi surrenders to forbidden pa...

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 ...

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...