Highland Rogue

October 1, 2004
Claire is used to dealing with fortune hunters, but her beautiful half sister, Tessa, is not. When Claire hears that Tessa is considering breaking up with her fiance, Spencer, for a handsome American, she knows that she has to protect Tessa from the cad. But Tessa's new romantic interest is Ewan Geddes, a former servant at their Scottish estate who has recently returned from America. Still convinced that Ewan is only interested in Tessa's money, Claire decides to offer him a more tempting target: herself. The only problem is that the more Claire tries to lure Ewan away from Tessa, the less certain she is that she is doing this for her sister rather than for herself. A sensible heroine who considers herself too plain for any man to be interested in anything but her fortune engages in a wonderfully amusing battle of wits and wills with a charming hero determined to prove to her that there is more than one kind of beauty in Hale's sparklingly witty Victorian historical.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2004, American Library Association.)