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    Just in Time for a Highlander

    By Gwyn Cready

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    From RITA winner Gwyn Cready comes a Scottish time travel romance perfect for fans of Outlander

    Modern day battle reenactor Duncan MacHarg thinks he has it made—until he lands in the middle of a real Highland battle and comes face to face with the clan's beautiful, spirited leader. Out of time and out of place, Duncan must use every skill he can muster to earn his position among the clansmen and in the heart of the devastatingly intriguing woman to whom he must pledge his oath.

    Abby needs a hero and she needs him now. Duncan's a man with no measurable battle skills and a damnably distracting smile. But she sees in him a fighting spirit, and Abby will do whatever it takes to turn him into a Scots warrior herself—one demanding and intimate lesson at a time.

    Sirens of the Scottish Borderlands Series:

    Just in Time for a Highlander (Book 1)

    First Time with a Highlander (Book 2)

    Every Time with a Highlander (Book 3)

    Praise for Gwyn Cready:

    "Cready's writing is romantic and wickedly witty." —Rachel Gibson, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author

    "Fun and sexy...a reading adventure you don't want to miss." —Janet Evanovich, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author, on Tumbling Through Time

    "Passionate, suspenseful, adventurous and highly entertaining." —RT Book Reviews, 4 ½ stars, on Aching for Always

    "Cready's writing is as brilliantly seductive as it is historically gripping." —Fictitious Musings, on Timeless Desire

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateFeb 3, 2015
    ISBN9781492601944
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    Just in Time for a Highlander
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    Gwyn Cready

    Gwyn Cready is the award-winning author of numerous romance novels. Some of her works include Tumbling Through Time, Seducing Mr. Darcy, and the Sirens of the Scottish Borderlands series. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family. 

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    • 1/5
      Never, ever, again! You hear me?! No way!I thought this would be one more awesome romance with a Highlander hunk who would make me melt. Well, I did get the Highlander hunk with the melting abilities. But really, if it was just him in the story, without the main heroine, I would have been so much happier about it...Duncan MacHarg is a history geek, who likes battle reenactments and loves his Scottish roots. But a spell gone wrong lands him in Scotland, some centuries in the past, in the arms of Abby Kerr - a chieftess who's in need of a strong arm, but never a husband. Can they survive each other enough for Duncan to help Abby and then go back home?Excuse me for a minute, please.*cracks knuckles*OK! Now! Let's see... Which one of you ladies has always dreamed of a guy who would be enough of an Alpha to order us when it mattered, and enough of a marshmallow to be sweet and caring and totally adorkable while courting us? I'm sure I'm not the only that finds this kind of man attractive and of panty-dropping quality, right?So, if a guy like what I just described - let's call him, oh, I don't know, DUNCAN, MAYBE?! - came up to you, would you abuse this man to the point of almost breaking him? Would you treat him in such a way that would turn him into the most insecure being alive, constantly berating himself and questioning his own masculinity? Would you call him less of a man right in front of his face, multiple times, because he had more brains than brawn when it mattered, because he had a good heart that couldn't just allow him to mindlessly kill someone on command, because he cared and showed honor and feelings more than the rest of the crude d-bags that dare to call themselves part of the male population? I ask you now, ladies, how many times have we fumed about heroines in historical romance or time travel being treated like scum beneath a lord's shoe? How many times have we condemned main heroes for treating a woman in a demeaning way, making her question her feminine charms and humiliating her state of intelligence more often than not? In what kind of universe is it ok and acceptable, then, for a woman to do this to a man? Fictional or not, this is wrong on so many levels! We female readers keep complaining about sexist main heroes, but when it comes down to it, we're perfectly fine with humiliating a damn wonderful guy just to get off on the idea of being on top of things! THIS is why I'm so against feminism, damn it! Equality, people, is it so much to ask for equality? If I were Duncan, I would have sold all of Abby's secrets to the highest bidder. I mean, seriously, it's not like the woman tried in any way to make him feel loyal to her - other than threatening him, of course. Whenever he tried to help, whenever he dared state his opinion, whenever he so much as changed the tempo of his breath without her permission, the insults would come. The humiliation. The verbal abuse. And then the threats, the constant reminder he was at her mercy, and so on, and so on. Let me see if I get this correctly. Abby felt distain and all sorts of negative feelings whenever men made her feel less than she believed she deserved. So, as a way to make her feel better, she needed someone to vent, to make them feel even worse than she did. And in comes Duncan. I don't know how you people call it, I call it inferiority complex.The reason why I actually managed to finish this book - though I honestly wanted to stop long before I reached page 100? I wanted to see Duncan put her in her place. I didn't see that, of course - instead, I saw another soul being tortured by Abby's poor choices, Rosston. In the end, all I could care about was "will Duncan and Rosston become friends after all?". Yeah, it's true - I even wished for those two to fall in love with each other and let Abby die a sad and miserable shrew (oh, wait, she was already a sad and miserable shrew, I meant alone). The only thing I wish for the rest of you who will stick with this series - because I'm so out of here - is that Serafina and Undine, the ones I suspect to be the main heroines for the next books, will not be as bad as Abby.Remember, ladies, treating them the same way they treat us is NOT the solution, and it only makes us look like bullies. Be their equals - you will see how much better it is this way...***I was given an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The opinion stated in this review is solely mine, and no compensation was given or taken to alter it.***
    • 3/5
      Review courtesy of All Things Urban FantasyWhat makes JUST IN TIME FOR A HIGHLANDER unique in the 'time traveling to the past historical romance' genre is that the genders are switched. The guy, Duncan gets shuttled off to the Highlands of Scotland and meets a Scottish lass, Abby and they fall in love.The conflict (aside from Duncan being stuck in a time with no flush toilets) revolves around Abby trying to avoid war with the English, keeping the clan safe, and avoiding a forced marriage. With so much going on the plot was really hard to keep track of. Half the time I kept having to stop and figure out what was happening and to who.I liked both of the characters and Duncan was really a good sport about being out of his time. He seemed to adjust pretty well though its probably a bit easier for a man to go back in time than a woman considering some of the limitations and attitudes towards women at the time. I was baffled at how he was perfectly fine with staying in the land of no penicillin so soon after he arrived. There didn't seem to be anything about trying to figure out how he got to Scotland or how to get back to his life in the 21st century. It was also interesting to see that Abby was a clan chief which puts her in a position of power yet she is still bound by some of the prejudices and hurdles women had to leap over to be respected.I am always up for a good time travel story but sometimes the method of time travel is a bit unclear or random for my taste. JUST IN TIME FOR A HIGHLANDER's time travel method seemed really odd and the revelation towards the end of the book left more questions than answers. This story had potential with a female clan chief and a man being sent back in time instead of a woman. Unfortunately it fell flat in the execution of the plot threads which were really hard to follow and the romance got lost in all of the plot too much for me to get invested in it.
    • 3/5
      3.5 starsJUST IN TIME FOR A HIGLANDER, first in Ms. Cready’s new Sirens of the Scottish Borderlands series, is a lively, playful time travel adventure.Grit, daring, humor, and wit are my favorite qualities in a heroine and Chieftess Abby Kerr has them in spades. Between those who think a woman can’t rule and teetering on bankruptcy, Abby is fighting an uphill battle. Duncan, a modern Scot trading on Wall Street. Ginger-haired Duncan is used to women falling at his feet. He’s not prepared for the women or Scotland of 1706.Abby keeps her eye on the prize and the welfare of her clan is always at the forefront for her. Unlike most chiefs, Abby seeks peace. She’s not gung-ho for battle and war with the English. She wants to maintain a free and independent Scotland but has different ideas on how to get there. Abby is politically astute and understands the undercurrents and power plays. She employs brains and cunning over brute force. Abby is heroic. She’s willing to sacrifice herself for her clan’s safety and well being. She’s carrying quite a load. There’s little opportunity to let her guard down and relax. Duncan allows her to do that. His mis-steps allow for levity in a life fraught with plots, peril, challenges, and danger. Duncan is comic relief and hero. Duncan discovers women in 1706 Scotland aren’t attracted to the same attributes modern women are. Duncan has a lot of learning and growing ahead of him. For being plopped down over three hundred years in the past, Duncan does a decent job of coping. I understand Abby’s attraction to Duncan. She hasn’t known him all her life, he’s charming, he’s unique (in more ways than one), and he understands women enough to let her take the reins in her role as Chieftess and leader of the clan. Duncan isn’t a wuss; he simply understands the difference between Abby’s public and private roles. He isn’t going to undermine her in clan affairs. He’s a great hero for Abby but doesn’t crank my clock. I like and enjoy Duncan but I don’t love him. As much as I enjoyed Abby and Duncan’s journey they weren’t the most interesting characters for me.Nab is an adorable boy Duncan hires to spy for him. Nab is precocious and delighted me every time he appeared.Undine, witch~wise woman~seer. Just what is she truly? It’s said her mother was a naiad. Undine also wishes for peace. Courtesy of her reputation and status she can move freely between the English and Scottish. I’m not clear on where she actually lives but as close as she and Abby are it’s possibly on Kerr lands. Undine excites my curiosity.Serafina, a visitor seeking Undine’s help in a scheme to regain control of her inheritance and clear debts her n’er do well lover has incurred and assigned to her. A woman with a mission…There was an issue or two with the beginning and end of JUST IN TIME FOR A HIGHLANDER but I had a large time with the middle.Keeping an eye out and fingers crossed that Undine and Serafina will each get their own books in the near future.Reviewed for Miss Ivy’s Book Nook and Novels Alive TV