Highland Crown (Royal Highlander #1) by May McGoldrick. Historical Romance Release & ARC Review.

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Inverness, 1820

Perched on the North Sea, this port town―by turns legendary and mythological―is a place where Highland rebels and English authorities clash in a mortal struggle for survival and dominance. Among the fray is a lovely young widow who possesses rare and special gifts.

WANTED: Isabella Drummond
A true beauty and trained physician, Isabella has inspired longing and mystery―and fury―in a great many men. Hunted by both the British government and Scottish rebels, she came to the Highlands in search of survival. But a dying ship’s captain will steer her fate into even stormier waters. . .and her heart into flames.

FOUND: Cinaed Mackintosh
Cast from his home as a child, Cinaed is a fierce soul whose allegiance is only to himself. . .until Isabella saved his life―and added more risk to her own. Now, the only way Cinaed can keep her safe to seek refuge at Dalmigavie Castle, the Mackintosh family seat. But when the scandalous truth of his past comes out, any chance of Cinaed having a bright future with Isabella is thrown into complete darkness. What will these two ill-fated lovers have to sacrifice to be together…for eternity?

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Dr. Isabella Drummond is on the run from just about everyone.  Her husband was a revolutionary and since his death the authorities want to catch her to find out who his accomplices are,  and the revolutionists want to kill her to make sure she never talks.  She managed to send her younger sister and her stepdaughter to safety with a friend and is now hiding until she can safely get them all out of the country. 
Captain Cinaed Mackintosh smuggles arms into Scotland from Canada several times a year,  but this time a storm changes his plans. 
This is a very exciting and dangerous journey through a Scotland that is suffering under tryanny.   The people are broken and starving.  Nobody can be trusted to look after anyone except themselves. 
Our brave heroine will always put the safety and health of others over her own.  Our hero is a born leader and incredibly strong. 
An action packed story I couldn't put down. 
I loved it. 

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Two peas in a pod, a pair of halfwits, the Laurel and Hardy of romance fiction...Nikoo & Jim McGoldrick were married in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin 68 years ago before a worldwide television audience. After a honeymoon tour of their oil fields in Iran, they embarked on a writing career that has produced dozens of New York Times bestsellers, two Academy Award Winning film adaptations, and a Nobel Prize for Literature. After all this, fortune FINALLY smiled on them and they won the New Jersey Lottery. Taking their two sons, Nikoo and Jim spent a year backpacking through Africa and then seven years in Tibet, teaching the Dalai Lama the subtle intricacies of Scrabble. Upon returning to the States, these two storytellers wrote forty adult and young adult novels, four of which were RITA finalists and three which were NJRW Golden Leaf winners. They have also written two nonfiction works. Nikoo picked up an engineering degree somewhere along the way, and Jim has a PhD in 16th Century British literature. 

These two write under the pseudonyms of May McGoldrick and Jan Coffey and now reside in southern California.

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