Highland Tides. ( Caledonia Chronicles #2) by Anna Markland. ARC Review.

Charlotte Tremayne is an independent eighteenth century woman, a clandestine novelist, creator  of a famous picaresque hero. She has little sympathy for the defeated Jacobites who languish in her

 uncle´s cells after Culloden , but her interest is piqued by tales of a prisoner who claims to be from the fifteenth century. His far fetched story might provide material for her next novel. 

Braden Ogilvie drowns in 1436 and wakes up in a jail cell accused of Jacobite sympathies. He comes to realize he has been transported more than three hundred ears into the future. Drawn to the woman who eventually believes his story, he must nevertheless return to his own time to establish the innocence of his sister accused a crime she didn´t comit. If he leaves, will he ever find his way back to Charlotte?

Wow!!  What an awesome adventure.  I wish I had had history teachers who could make it this exciting. 
Braden is the oldest of three brothers believed to have drowned in the year 1436 , This is mentioned in  first book of this series. (Highland Pride) . He regains his senses in a dungeon, and knows he deserves to be in hell ,it's his fault he and his brothers are dead.  He soon comes to realize he has somehow travelled into the future.
Charlotte is a modern,  intelligent woman in the year 1746. She has written a highly acclaimed novel under a male pseudonym.  She is looking for ideas for her next book, so joins her uncle when he interrogates the prisoners from the battle of Culloden.
I will not follow that with more details because I don't want to spoil the story for you.
Braden knows he has to go and visit his sister. This will take more courage than you might think. On his return journey he finds one of his brothers. Along with more danger and adventure.
Callum wakes from his drowning in a wonderful soft bed, he knows he is in heaven because he is deserving. That is until the woman next to him starts screaming. 

Lexi is journeying with her uncle .She is on her way to a nunnery, but her uncle is meeting with a mysterious group of men to arrange something that could cost them their lives. 

We have two stories linked as one in this book, so you get lots of  action and adventure. Our heroes are brave and sexy. One of our heroines is a very independent woman . The other thought she had decided her own life but fate ( our author) had other ideas. 

I can´t wait to read the next story in this series.

I was born and educated in England , but I´ve lived most of my life in Canada. I was an educator for 25 years. It was a rewarding career, financially, spiritually and emotionally.

After that I worked with my husband in the management of his businesses. He´s a born entrepreneur who likes to boast he´s never had a job ! 

My final " career " was as Director of Administration of a global disaster relief organization. I then a embarked upon writing a romance, essentially for my own satisfaction. I chose the medieval period mainly because that genre of historical romance is one I enjoy reading.

I have a keen interest in genealogy. This hobby has had a tremendous influence on my stories . My medieval romances are about family honor, ancestry, and roots. As an amateur genealogist, I cherished a dream ( as do many) of tracing my own English roots back to the Norman conquest--an impossibility since I´m not descended from nobility! So I made up a family and my stories follow it¨s members through successive generations.

One of things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is the in-depth research necessary to provide readers with an authentic medieval experience. I based the plot of my first novel .Conquering Passion, on an incident that actually happened to a Norman noblewoman.