The Highlander’s Rescued Maiden: The Lairds Most Likely Book 9

Campbell Pens a Breathtaking Series Finale!

Book: The Highlander’s Rescued Maiden
By Anna Campbell

Series: The Lairds Most Likely, Book 9

Overall Rating: 5/5 stars

Outer Hebrides, Isle of Bortha,
Scotland, 1732

This book’s hero is Will son of Callum and Mairi Mackinnon from The Highlander’s Defiant Captive, book 4. He is sailing and is caught as goes off course in a very bad storm in Outer Hebrides on the Isle of Bortha. He can see the isle is deserted and see’s a tower and imagines it is empty too. Still he needs a place to dry off and take cover until the storm passes. Will knocks on the tower door and nobody answers - it is locked so he breaks in. He is shocked when he comes face to face with the most beautiful golden haired Lass holding a pistol which is pointed at him! He see’s right away she is lame and see how she does not trust men at all.

Somehow Will does convince Ellen he won’t harm her, he realizes she is a story his romantic cousin Dougall fantasized about and tried to discover. It was way how he met his wife Kristy 4 years ago on a different isle. The Highlander’s Christmas Quest, Book 5. Will had told Dougall it was a silly made up legend that he thought was just a fairy tale. Yet he realizes he has found Ellen of the isles and some of the highland legend was all very true. Just most was this rejected beauties nightmare than a beautiful fairytale with a happily ever after ending! It was obvious this woman was a prisoner and forced to live here alone by people who should have loved and protected her! This made Will angry on so many levels!

Ellen Cameron was banished to this tower ten years ago by her heartless Godly father. He feels she his own daughter is a curse from God, as her mother died giving birth to her and someone pulled her leg out of her mother’s womb which crippled her. Now her father remarried and his new wife complained about her who has two daughters close in age. It was due to jealousy and competition as Ellen has the face of an angel with a body the match. Yet her father does have some guilt as she has all the luxuries of home with a maid and six elderly guards. As they won’t allow young handsome guards in case they fall under her spell as her father fears she should never marry due to her lame leg, So she is a prisoner on this isle forever.

Now Will also falls under her spell and he feels a limping leg is no big deal. As he gets to know her he realizes he is shocked a parent would exile his own child for a birth defect. Will had a very loving and supportive family so he is shocked and would like to kick Ellen’s Papa in the teeth. He realized besides being the bonniest woman he has ever met, she is smart, kind and intelligent but has not trust of men! He does understand that and starts knocking down her defensive walls and she opens up and quickly they both fall in love.

Even though some storms can last they both hope this will last forever as her guards and maid is on her fathers island. Yet once the weather breaks they will return, plus they will kill Will if they find a young handsome man sniffing around. Yet all Will wants to do is to rescue Ellen, but she fears it’s more out of pity something she hates more than anything! Plus she has seen how she was treated on her fathers own island, remembering the whispers, hair pulling and pinching and she is the Lairds daughter! She fears what people would think of her at Achnasheen in Will’s clan, as she feels she will never be his equal.

When the weather clears for smooth sailing will her guards catch and harm will? Can Will convince Ellen to leave with him and discover a life of freedom and love? Shall Ellen just live with the memories of Will forever and spend the rest of her life a prisoner in this empty tower? Read and find out.

This is sadly the ninth and last book in this wonderful The Lairds Most Likely series. I have enjoyed each and every book in this series and do hope Anna Campbell returns to Scottish historical romance soon. I really loved this story plus I loved this was Collum and Mairi’s first born son and for obvious reasons too. Each book I have enjoyed so much but I really loved Will and Ellen’s story. This can be read as a stand alone book even if you haven’t read the other books in the series. A riveting book from start to finish that I highly recommend.

The Lairds Most Likely Series by Anna Campbell

1)The Laird’s Willful Lass
2)The Laird’s Christmas Kiss
3)The Highlander’s Lost Lady
4)The Highlander’s Defiant Captive
5)The Highlander’s Christmas Quest
6)The Highlander’s English Bride
7)The Highlander’s Forbidden Mistress
7.5)The Highlander’s Christmas Lassie
8)The Highlander’s Christmas Countess
9)The Highlander’s Rescued Maiden

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