On a Highland Shore

Starred review from August 15, 2006
Returning home after failing to convince the king to release her from a politically necessary but personally distasteful betrothal, Margaret MacDonald finds her entire village destroyed and most of the clansfolk, including her family, brutally slaughtered in a vicious attack from the sea. But there is a greedy plan behind the carnage, and it will take all of Margaret's skill and intelligence, as well as that of the fierce half-Norse, half-Irish Gannon MacMagnus, to rescue her abducted younger brother and save the Highlands from Viking ambition. With unparalleled skill and an exquisite sense of time and place, Rita Award winner Givens ("The Destiny") spins a violent, realistic tale of love, loyalty, and betrayal, breathing life into characters both real and fictional and vividly portraying the turbulence and intricate political machinations of 13th-century Scotland. Laguna Beach, CA -based Givens hints at a sequel.

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