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...

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...

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...

A review of Highland Spring by Elizabeth Rose, Book One in her Seasons of Fortitude Series Pages -  277 Publisher -  RoseScribe Media Inc. Published -  May 18, 2017 Sold by - Amazon Digital Services LLC Series - Seasons of Fortitude Book 1 of 4 Genre -  Historical Romance, Scottish Highlands Language -  1/5 Sexual Content -  3/5 Narrative -  3rd Spring has been raised as a warrior, always trying to please her father of Viking descent. Through the years she's tried to be the son he wished her to be. At a young age she's chosen the bow and arrows of a dead man as her weapon, and now she's mastered the skill. Growing up without a mother, the only skill she hasn't mastered is how to be a lady and someday a mother. But now her father decides to marry her off to their enemy, Shaw Gordon, in order to get inside the castle walls. Wanting to be a part of overtaking the castle, she goes along with the plan. Shaw Gordon, ch...

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 -  300  Publisher -  Polished Pen Press; 5 edition  Published -  December 21, 2014 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Time Travel Romance Series -  Across the Ages Book 1 of 2 Language -  1/5 Sexual Content -  2/5 Narrative -  1st P Ghosts are real. So is time travel. Eighteen-year-old Lucy Channing discovers this reality after her dead grandmother gives her a beautiful locket. As soon as her fingers brush the cold copper, Lucy is swept out of the nineteenth century and into the twenty-first. The first person she encounters is twenty-year-old William Godwin. He’s arrogant, exciting, and oh so handsome. After meeting, he agrees to help Lucy find her way home. Or into the nearest mental institution. She knows he must think her daft. But what the two uncover reveals more than ghosts and time travel. There are gods fighting to keep them apart. Disaster is around every corner....

Print Length -  250 pages Publisher -  Lyrical Press Published -  August 18, 2015 Sold by -  Penguin Random House Publisher Services Series -  Lost Heiresses, Book 1 of 3 Genre -  Historical, American West and Victorian England Amazon -  Kindle Link Language -  4/5 Sexual Content -  3/5 Narrative -  3rd P It’s one thing for a girl to lose her way, quite another to lose her heart… Genny Hayes could charm a bear away from a pot of honey. But raised in the forests of Yosemite, she’s met precious few men to practice her smiles upon. Until a marvelously handsome photographer appears in her little corner of the wilderness and she convinces him to take her clear across the country and over the seas to England, where she has a titled grandmother and grandfather waiting to claim her. On their whirlwind journey, she’ll have the chance to bedazzle and befuddle store clerks and train robbers, society matrons a...

Pages -  295  Publisher -  HEA Publishing Published - August 29, 2016 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre - Clean/Wholesome Regency Romance Series -  Tanglewood, Book 1 of 3 Sexual Content -  0/5 Language -  0/5 Narrative -  Third Person (Heroine's Story) When Colin Cavendish, the new earl of Drayson, informs Lucy Beresford that she and her mother need to vacate the house they've called home for the past two years, Lucy is fit to be tied. They have no money, no relations they can turn to for help, and nowhere to go. How dare the earl break the promise his father had made to the Beresfords without so much as a twinge of conscience? Fate plays her hand when Lucy discovers the earl unconscious and injured in the middle of the road. When he awakens with no recollection of who he is, Lucy seizes the opportunity to teach the earl a much-needed lesson in humility and tells him that he is nothing more than a mere ...

Pages - 164  Publisher -  Indie House Publishing Published -  October 24, 2016 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Contemporary Western Romance, Clean & Wholesome Series -  Farraday Country 1 of  9 Sexual Content -  0/5 Language -  3/5 Narrative -  3rd P Welcome to Farraday Country, a twist on the favorite 7 Brides for 7 Brothers them e set in cattle-ranching west Texas, with all the friends, family and fun that fans have come to expect from USA TODAY Bestselling author Chris Keniston. On a barren road in the pre-dawn hours, Adam Farraday, the oldest of seven siblings, happens upon a disabled sports car and an angel in white searching for a disappearing dog. What is it about this secretive redheaded beauty that intrigues him as no woman has before? After learning her fiancé's true nature minutes before her wedding, Meg O'Brien drives as fast and as far away from her world as she can. S...