To Have a Highland Thief
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Having lost her parents at a young age, Flora MacGregor grows up as the substitute mother for a group of notorious criminals. She hates stealing, but to save her adopted brother, she takes to the streets to pick pockets. Her mission is accomplished when she lifts a jewel-filled box from a handsome Englishman. After she hides the treasure, he tracks her down, detains her, and demands the return of his goods in exchange for not reporting her to the authorities. When a dangerous man she's wronged in the past closes in to exact revenge, she agrees to return the items if Isaac hides her from the threat. Although she's becoming enamored with the earl, following through on their deal isn't an option.
Isaac Nathaniel Hamilton, 7th earl of Dunbridge has spent years trying to regain the family shipping fortune lost by his gambling uncle. After winning the deeds back, a captivating Scottish lass bumps into him and takes his prize. She refuses to give it back until he offers to protect her from a crime lord intent on revenge. As he teaches her to act like a lady to conceal her at a country estate until the danger has passed, he soon discovers that there is much to admire about the person she already is.
She needs his protection, but can he trust the word of a thief?
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Her window to love and freedom
Her Window to love and freedom.
Will she finally feel she is enough ...
Wow, what a fabulous first in a series the author offers us all with this wonderful tale of second love and unconditional love.
Flora survived her deepest wound, being not enough for her parents to keep her. Since she tried to make up by helping others to find their worth. But the scar is still raw, and she believes she can made do with her “siblings” finding their right path, that it will be enough for herself to be content.
But hounded from all sides, everyone wanting a piece of her, she is loosing her battle, shutting out her hopes for a different future.
Isaac did it, finally he was able to reclaim what was lost because of an inconsiderate fool. The avenir of those under his care is within an inch of being secured. Until a thief intervenes and nearly ruins everything.
He has every right to be angry, thus his retaliation, still his gentleness at handling Flora, despite his ire, demonstrates he is a person to be trusted. He could have washed his hands of her, yet he protects her as soon as he learns she is in danger. Of course he has second thoughts, but as time passes and he get to glimpse past her mask, he realizes she is the most self sacrificing being he ever met.
With all the secrets Flora hides, I stayed on edge most of my reading, wondering when the second shoe would drop, as she is like an artichoke, one mystery after another until you find the heart.
Strange how the author pressed her ideas, the hero’s mother is only present through his comments or thoughts, yet she is like a shadow looming close by, a being I disliked more and more throughout the pages.
I would have liked to be a mouse to see her reaction when Isaac would have introduced Flora to her. As she even farer than an universe away from the opposite picture Isaac’s mother has for his future bride.
5 stars
I am now curious about Flora’s “siblings”.
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 onscreen detailed foreplays and lovemaking scenes.
𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 talk of a past sexual assault