The Bride Chooses a Highlander

December 1, 2018
In her latest Scottish romance, Basso brings readers to fourteenth-century Scotland, where marriages between clans are of strategic advantage and decided by fathers. This long-standing tradition is turned on its head when the wife of Laird McKenna extracts a promise from her husband: her daughter can choose the man she marries. Lady Katherine McKenna waits well beyond the traditional marrying age, searching for just the right partner. Thinking she has found that elusive "one," Katherine agrees to marry until she sees that he actually loves another. Katherine attempts to break the marriage contract by fleeing from the castle in the dead of night. During her flight, she is faced with numerous trials and tribulations, resulting in her meeting Laird Lachlan MacTavish. Both are struck by an unshakable knowledge that fate has brought them together. Can Katherine and Lachlan overcome marriage contracts, pride, honor, and family obligations to find true love? Basso's latest will please fans of Paula Quinn or Michele Sinclair.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)