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Highland Obsession (2009)

by Dawn Halliday(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0451227018 (ISBN13: 9780451227010)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

NAL Trade

series

Connected Books

review 1: I have had this one on my bookshelf for awhile. I love when I find little gems hidden away. I also love when I expect nothing and get more. Alan marries Sorcha and on their wedding night she is kidnapped by his best friend Cam. Taken away to his lands. Alan has no idea what's happening but he chases after them and tries his best to save her. Cam just wants Sorcha. He finds himself in love with her and even though their elicit affair ended months before he can't seem to forget her. Sorcha a married woman now wants nothing to do with Cam. Even though she may have loved him once she would never dishonor her husband. When Alan finds out his wife was with another man before their marriage and to make matters worse it was his best friend he's not sure what to do. He's been betra... moreyed and not sure if he can forgive her.There was so much going on in this one. Definitely a love triangle of the worst kind. I wasn't sure who to root for in the beginning. I felt for both men. First Cam and then Alan. There was some serious erotic moments that were steamy hot. I loved it. I felt a connection with each of the characters. They were all well developed and really made the story that much better. I cannot wait to read the next one in the series.
review 2: I'm really not sure how to review this story, and I'm honestly not sure I liked it or not. This is a very intense, emotional drama set in Northern Scotland in the Jacobite period of 1715. You have three main characters who have all made mistakes and who have all let pride and lies rule them in some fashion. It begins on Sorcha and Alan's wedding night. Sorcha is a fairly young (23) woman by today's standards but would be considered on her way to being mature back then. Sorcha has a big secret and its eating her alive. When she lived with her father, the factor for Lord Camdonn, she had an affair and lost her virginity to Cam (Lord Camdonn). The affair has been over for months and now she sits in fear on her wedding night knowing her husband Alan is not only expecting but wanting a virgin bride. In all fairness to Sorcha, she's a rather immature 23 and Cam is several years and vastly more of the world. Cam should have known he was ruining her because an Earl could never marry a lowly Factor's daughter. To Sorcha's credit, she has made the decision to make this marriage to her stranger husband work, and to always be honest with him - AFTER she pretends herself through a "virgin wedding night". Cam has decided he cannot live without Sorcha, but waits until its too late. Sorcha is married. So being the arrogant Lord of the realm that he is, he kidnaps her on her wedding night, literally from the marriage bed. He injures Alan and spirits Sorcha away to his home several miles away. Cam has no intention of marrying her, he just wants her. The fact that Alan is his best friend pains him, but Cam rationalizes his way into making the kidnapping acceptable to himself. Sorcha fights him and ends up spending the night - alone - but the damage has been done.Alan is Laird of his small northern Scottish clan. He's returned from England where he originally met and became best friends with Cam in boarding school. He and Cam have a long history of debauchery and "sinning" their way through England but now he's home and has decided its time to retire his old ways and marry and lead his clan. His ideal wife is an untouched virgin bride. Thinking he's gotten this with Sorcha, he enjoys a somewhat wanton wedding night believing Sorcha is just a "natural". He's enraged when his "friend" Cam steals his wife away only hours later. Following them to Cam's home, he attempts to rescue her only to be injured and knocked out. Cam's men take him back to his small home where Sorcha's family find him and the truth of Sorcha's "secret" unwittingly comes to light while discussing what happened.There is quite a bit of emotional drama for all characters. I never warmed up to Cam, even after he made every attempt to redeem himself and make things right between Alan and Sorcha. Alan himself was no prize - he couldn't equate his feelings for Sorcha with what happened before and right after the marriage and his way of dealing with it was to be cold and unfeeling toward Sorcha, even after she escaped from Cam's house and made her way on foot, injured, back to him. (She was injured trying to escape) Sorcha I felt was genuinely apologetic but she was a milquetoast. While I realize things were far different then for men and women, Sorcha let Alan treat her like dirt and literally groveled at his feet for forgiveness, when she was probably the only one who hadn't actually done any wrongdoing (after the marriage). I didn't want to like her but I did - even though she was "in the wrong" to not tell Alan of her virginity before the marriage, she acted with complete and total honesty in every single conversation they had. She groveled at Alan's feet when I would have just packed up and left his broody self to his own devices. And she was genuinely remorseful and realized that Cam had taken advantage of her. There's a scene towards the end - the crux of the story - that I didn't like. Alan conceived it, Cam went along with it and Sorcha didn't say "no". All three were in the wrong and it only seemed to make an already explosive situation that much more volatile. In the end, I'd give this a 2.5 stars. There seems to be a sequel to the book but honestly - I'm not interested. less

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