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Highland Guard #7.5
The Knight
Stripped of his lands by the English king who killed his father, James Douglas will do whatever it takes to see his clan’s honor and fortune restored. The ambitious young knight, whose dark visage, powerful stature, and ferocity in battle has earned him the epitaph “the Black,” knows he must use fear, force, and intimidation to defeat the English, put Robert the Bruce on Scotland’s throne, and restore the honor of the Douglas name. Nothing and no one will get in his way. Not even the lass who captured his heart in childhood and still holds it in her delicate hands.
Joanna Dicson has loved James Douglas for as long as she can remember. That she is “only” the daughter of the marshal of Douglas Castle has never concerned her. Yet even as James’s ruthless reputation grows, and despite the warnings of others to guard her heart—and her virtue—against him, Joanna never dreams he will turn on her. He loves her and would never hurt her. But when James returns to Douglas to force the English garrison from his castle, Joanna learns that their love is nothing against his ambition. His marriage—like everything else—will be a means of bettering his clan. Heartbroken and humiliated, Joanna is left alone with a secret that may destroy them both.
Joanna Dicson has loved James Douglas for as long as she can remember. That she is “only” the daughter of the marshal of Douglas Castle has never concerned her. Yet even as James’s ruthless reputation grows, and despite the warnings of others to guard her heart—and her virtue—against him, Joanna never dreams he will turn on her. He loves her and would never hurt her. But when James returns to Douglas to force the English garrison from his castle, Joanna learns that their love is nothing against his ambition. His marriage—like everything else—will be a means of bettering his clan. Heartbroken and humiliated, Joanna is left alone with a secret that may destroy them both.
136 pages, ebook
First published December 9, 2013
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About the author
Monica McCarty
61 books2,965 followersWhat do you get when you mix a legal career, a baseball career, motherhood, and a love of history with a voracious reader? In my case, a Historical Romance Author.
Like most writers, I’ve always loved to read. Growing up in California there was always plenty to do outside, but all too often I could be found inside curled up with a book (or two or three). I started with the usual fare: The Little House on the Prairie series, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, Watership Down, Nancy Drew, and everything by Judy Blume. Once I cleared off my bookshelf, I started swiping books from my mom. Some, like Sidney Sheldon’s The Other Side of Midnight, probably weren’t the most appropriate choice for a pre-adolescent—although they were definitely illuminating. I can still remember the look of abject horror on my mom’s Catholic-girl-face when I asked her what a virgin was. After that rather brief conversation, she paid a little closer attention to what had disappeared off her book shelf, and steered me in the direction of Harlequin and Barbara Cartland romances. I was hooked. I quickly read through the inventory of the local library and was soon buying bags of romances at garage sales.
In high school, with the encouragement of my father (who I think was a little concerned about the steady diet of romances), I read over eighty of the Franklin Library’s One Hundred Greatest Books ever written—including Tolstoy, Confucius, Plato, and the entire works of Shakespeare. Some of them were tough going for a teenager, but the experience would prove an invaluable foundation for college. After reading War and Peace, I wasn’t easily intimidated.
For some reason Monica decided to go into writing and not fashion.
After graduation, I loaded up the VW (Jetta not Bus) and trekked down I-5 to attend the University of Southern California, majoring in Political Science and minoring in English (see why all that reading helped!). I joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and when I wasn’t studying or at football games, did my best to support the local bartending industry. Ah, the good old days.
With that kind of fun, four years of college wasn’t quite enough. So leaving Tommy Trojan behind, I traveled back up north to Palo Alto for three more years of study at Stanford Law School. Once I survived the stress of the first semester, law school proved to be one of the best times of my life—garnering me a JD, life-long friends, a husband, and an unexpectedly intimate knowledge of baseball. (See “The Baseball Odyssey” below).
Law School was also where I fell in love with Scotland. In my third year, I took a Comparative Legal History class, and wrote a paper on the Scottish Clan System and Feudalism. So I immediately dropped out of law school and went on to write Scottish Historical Romances…well no, not quite. You see, I always knew I wanted to be a lawyer. My father was a lawyer, I was a “poet” (i.e., not into math), and I love to argue. It seemed natural.
So I finished law school, got married, passed the CA bar, moved to Minnesota (with a few stops along the way), waived into the MN bar, worked as a litigator for a few satisfying years, moved back to CA, had a couple of kids, realized that a legal career and being a single parent for most of the year (due to husband's career) would be extremely difficult, and THEN decided to sit down and write.
And how did I end up writing romance? It’s not as divergent as it seems. What I loved about being a lawyer are the same things I love about being a writer—research and writing. The only thing missing is the arguing, but that’s what a husband and kids are for, right?
Like most writers, I’ve always loved to read. Growing up in California there was always plenty to do outside, but all too often I could be found inside curled up with a book (or two or three). I started with the usual fare: The Little House on the Prairie series, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, Watership Down, Nancy Drew, and everything by Judy Blume. Once I cleared off my bookshelf, I started swiping books from my mom. Some, like Sidney Sheldon’s The Other Side of Midnight, probably weren’t the most appropriate choice for a pre-adolescent—although they were definitely illuminating. I can still remember the look of abject horror on my mom’s Catholic-girl-face when I asked her what a virgin was. After that rather brief conversation, she paid a little closer attention to what had disappeared off her book shelf, and steered me in the direction of Harlequin and Barbara Cartland romances. I was hooked. I quickly read through the inventory of the local library and was soon buying bags of romances at garage sales.
In high school, with the encouragement of my father (who I think was a little concerned about the steady diet of romances), I read over eighty of the Franklin Library’s One Hundred Greatest Books ever written—including Tolstoy, Confucius, Plato, and the entire works of Shakespeare. Some of them were tough going for a teenager, but the experience would prove an invaluable foundation for college. After reading War and Peace, I wasn’t easily intimidated.
For some reason Monica decided to go into writing and not fashion.
After graduation, I loaded up the VW (Jetta not Bus) and trekked down I-5 to attend the University of Southern California, majoring in Political Science and minoring in English (see why all that reading helped!). I joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and when I wasn’t studying or at football games, did my best to support the local bartending industry. Ah, the good old days.
With that kind of fun, four years of college wasn’t quite enough. So leaving Tommy Trojan behind, I traveled back up north to Palo Alto for three more years of study at Stanford Law School. Once I survived the stress of the first semester, law school proved to be one of the best times of my life—garnering me a JD, life-long friends, a husband, and an unexpectedly intimate knowledge of baseball. (See “The Baseball Odyssey” below).
Law School was also where I fell in love with Scotland. In my third year, I took a Comparative Legal History class, and wrote a paper on the Scottish Clan System and Feudalism. So I immediately dropped out of law school and went on to write Scottish Historical Romances…well no, not quite. You see, I always knew I wanted to be a lawyer. My father was a lawyer, I was a “poet” (i.e., not into math), and I love to argue. It seemed natural.
So I finished law school, got married, passed the CA bar, moved to Minnesota (with a few stops along the way), waived into the MN bar, worked as a litigator for a few satisfying years, moved back to CA, had a couple of kids, realized that a legal career and being a single parent for most of the year (due to husband's career) would be extremely difficult, and THEN decided to sit down and write.
And how did I end up writing romance? It’s not as divergent as it seems. What I loved about being a lawyer are the same things I love about being a writer—research and writing. The only thing missing is the arguing, but that’s what a husband and kids are for, right?
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October 26, 2023
The hero, or God's gift to Scotland, bumps what would be a 4 star book to 3. For me he's just so unlikable, stupid and entitled. The heroine is a darling, intelligent and loving girl and deserves a better hero. There were at least two in the story that I kept yelling, Take him! He's a good one!!!!, but characters never listen.
H and h were childhood friends and recently lovers. You know what happens when young love strikes? Wee babies. The h is pregnant and it never once crosses her innocent mind that the man she adores would have sex with her and not even consider marrying her. In fact, it's laughable that she would even consider it. Not knowing she's pregnant he leaves because he has big Laird Scottish revenge stuff to do.
His ex best friend lays it out to him what an utter ass he is and that the h has lost the baby he never knew about. This is the epiphany he needs to get his head out from under his kilt. Sadly, he and his ego are confronted with the unthinkable, a heroine with a spine of steel that has had it.
“I’m sorry, mo ghrá. I’m sorry for everything. The baby. God, the baby.” His voice broke. “I didn’t know. I should have been there with you. I would have been, if you’d told me.” His words had no effect.
She stared up at him, unmoved and seemingly uninterested. “Why would I do that? It was over.”
“I didn’t mean that. I was angry. You were forcing me to choose between you and my duty, and I reacted. Badly, I admit. But damn it, Jo, you had to know I didn’t mean it. I love you.” He’d taken her arm without realizing it and tried to bring her closer to him, but she was as rigid as a pole of steel.
She turned her head away. “It makes no difference now.” His heart picked up the beat, speeding to a frantic race. She was acting like she hated him. But that wasn’t possible. This was Jo—his Jo—she loved him.
“Of course it makes a difference,” he said softly. “We need to talk about this, if we are going to get past it.”
“Get past it?” She stared at him and then did something so unexpected it shook him to the core. She burst into laughter. “Dear God, do you actually think you can tell me it’s over, leave for three months while I mourn the child you would have had the world call a bastard, and then come back as if nothing has changed? Everything has changed, James. I do not blame you for what happened any more than I blame myself. It was an accident. But it is done, and nothing can be done to change it back. You are too late. Whatever chance we might have had died along with our unborn child.”
He heard the words, but he didn’t want to hear what she was saying. He couldn’t be too late.
Oh noes! What an ass. He is still swimming along with the idea that she can be his eternal side piece when he clues in to what he needs to do.
“Stop it, Joanna! Damn it, stop it!” His grip tightened on her arm, as he drew her up to face him. His expression was just as wild and furious as she suspected hers must be. “Fine. If you are going to be stubborn about this, I’ll put it all aside. I’ll ignore my duty, my father’s wishes, and give up the chance to advance my clan and marry you.” He shook her again. “I’ll marry you, damn it. Is that what you want?”
Be still my heart. The proposal every girl wants.
Anyhoo, the H learns that he has to grovel and grovel he does to the point that the idiot offends Robert the Bruce.
Poor, poor 4 star heroine stuck with handsome but dumb H.
H and h were childhood friends and recently lovers. You know what happens when young love strikes? Wee babies. The h is pregnant and it never once crosses her innocent mind that the man she adores would have sex with her and not even consider marrying her. In fact, it's laughable that she would even consider it. Not knowing she's pregnant he leaves because he has big Laird Scottish revenge stuff to do.
His ex best friend lays it out to him what an utter ass he is and that the h has lost the baby he never knew about. This is the epiphany he needs to get his head out from under his kilt. Sadly, he and his ego are confronted with the unthinkable, a heroine with a spine of steel that has had it.
“I’m sorry, mo ghrá. I’m sorry for everything. The baby. God, the baby.” His voice broke. “I didn’t know. I should have been there with you. I would have been, if you’d told me.” His words had no effect.
She stared up at him, unmoved and seemingly uninterested. “Why would I do that? It was over.”
“I didn’t mean that. I was angry. You were forcing me to choose between you and my duty, and I reacted. Badly, I admit. But damn it, Jo, you had to know I didn’t mean it. I love you.” He’d taken her arm without realizing it and tried to bring her closer to him, but she was as rigid as a pole of steel.
She turned her head away. “It makes no difference now.” His heart picked up the beat, speeding to a frantic race. She was acting like she hated him. But that wasn’t possible. This was Jo—his Jo—she loved him.
“Of course it makes a difference,” he said softly. “We need to talk about this, if we are going to get past it.”
“Get past it?” She stared at him and then did something so unexpected it shook him to the core. She burst into laughter. “Dear God, do you actually think you can tell me it’s over, leave for three months while I mourn the child you would have had the world call a bastard, and then come back as if nothing has changed? Everything has changed, James. I do not blame you for what happened any more than I blame myself. It was an accident. But it is done, and nothing can be done to change it back. You are too late. Whatever chance we might have had died along with our unborn child.”
He heard the words, but he didn’t want to hear what she was saying. He couldn’t be too late.
Oh noes! What an ass. He is still swimming along with the idea that she can be his eternal side piece when he clues in to what he needs to do.
“Stop it, Joanna! Damn it, stop it!” His grip tightened on her arm, as he drew her up to face him. His expression was just as wild and furious as she suspected hers must be. “Fine. If you are going to be stubborn about this, I’ll put it all aside. I’ll ignore my duty, my father’s wishes, and give up the chance to advance my clan and marry you.” He shook her again. “I’ll marry you, damn it. Is that what you want?”
Be still my heart. The proposal every girl wants.
Anyhoo, the H learns that he has to grovel and grovel he does to the point that the idiot offends Robert the Bruce.
Poor, poor 4 star heroine stuck with handsome but dumb H.
August 20, 2015
Read the following of my feeling sequence upon reading this book.
Great prologue, this should be interesting.
Okay, so heroine got knocked up.
What a idiot, you woman.
That's a shitty thing to say, you jerk dude.
Right love my arse.
Oh no girl don't die.
Boohoohoo dude you deserved that.
Atta girl! Make him crawl.
Damn dude you got a nerve.
Dude you're shameless seriously!
Oh God no woman why are you such an idiot!?
That's it, woman. You're officially an idiot.
Dear Joanna,
You are kind-hearted truly because if a guy treated me the way James treated you, I wouldn't just let him crawl, I would dump his arse right there, not looking back and move on to look for someone better. Well, it's you so I don't know, whatever.
Pretty cover so I added another star.
Great prologue, this should be interesting.
Okay, so heroine got knocked up.
What a idiot, you woman.
That's a shitty thing to say, you jerk dude.
Right love my arse.
Oh no girl don't die.
Boohoohoo dude you deserved that.
Atta girl! Make him crawl.
Damn dude you got a nerve.
Dude you're shameless seriously!
Oh God no woman why are you such an idiot!?
That's it, woman. You're officially an idiot.
Dear Joanna,
You are kind-hearted truly because if a guy treated me the way James treated you, I wouldn't just let him crawl, I would dump his arse right there, not looking back and move on to look for someone better. Well, it's you so I don't know, whatever.
Pretty cover so I added another star.
August 18, 2024
3.5 - 4 Stars
I'd say this was a winner. 154 pages with decent pacing, enjoyable angst and likable main characters. It felt more contemporary than historical but I'm not going to be picky. All in all, well done.
No infidelity
Epilogue - 3 weeks later; newly wedded
Read it as a standalone (I have not read the other books in the series)
Note to self: Put in the reread pile
I'd say this was a winner. 154 pages with decent pacing, enjoyable angst and likable main characters. It felt more contemporary than historical but I'm not going to be picky. All in all, well done.
No infidelity
Epilogue - 3 weeks later; newly wedded
Read it as a standalone (I have not read the other books in the series)
Note to self: Put in the reread pile
September 15, 2014
This is the story of James Douglas, known as The Black Douglas who was feared for his ruthlessness. He was also favored and a close lieutenant of Robert the Bruce. James is über ambitious and confuses Joanna Dicson into believing his love meant marriage. When she learns differently, Jo is devastated.
I pretty much despised James for most of the story, unusual for me in this series. Both he and Jo do a lot of maturing before they find their way back to each other and my feelings about him shifted when I didn't believe that possible.
It's short and the subject isn't a member of the Highland Guard, which is a departure. However, the history is still here and I enjoyed learning about this important figure in Bruce's inner circle. Plus, the romance was heartfelt.
I pretty much despised James for most of the story, unusual for me in this series. Both he and Jo do a lot of maturing before they find their way back to each other and my feelings about him shifted when I didn't believe that possible.
It's short and the subject isn't a member of the Highland Guard, which is a departure. However, the history is still here and I enjoyed learning about this important figure in Bruce's inner circle. Plus, the romance was heartfelt.
February 25, 2014
I loved the actual writing, this is one of my favorite authors. The story felt very short (it's a novella) like a chunk was missing. I didn't like the hero, even when he tried to redeem himself he was a bit of a jerk. The heroine was awesome, really made him grovel and stood up for herself - you go girl!
November 23, 2015
Wow, no one packs an emotional sucker punch like Monica McCarty.
I say this in all my novella reviews: "I don't like novellas." Most of the time I just end up feeling rushed. But I have had one 4-star novella read (all other novellas are lucky to snatch 3 stars) until today. And from today on, I have 2 4-star novellas.
I won't go on and on about how great a writer Monica McCarty is. It's an established fact and even when I don't like the characters, her books never fail to make an impression on me. Fantastic writing, period. The way she tells a story........she is just one hell of a storyteller. You read on and become mesmerized in the world she builds in her books. Her books are always intense and emotional. No fake conflicts for the sake of the story. She explores real human emotions and you cannot help but feel all the "I don't know what to do" and "I wish things were different".
To the characters: James is an ASS! lol This is one romance hero who knew that he loved the heroine from page 1. James and Joanna were childhood friends and they have long known that they loved each other. James being the son of the Lord and Joanna being the daughter of the marshal, their match was socially incompatible. They both knew that. James, being the arrogant ass taht he was, thought they had an "understanding". He was planning on making Joanna his leman so that he could have a political marriage to satisfy his ambition and have love by keeping Joanna on the side. He wanted to marry "well" to advance his political status and marrying Joanna was out of the question. He thought Joanna would "understand" and fully expected that Joanna would be happy to have only his love and not his name. He fully intended to provide for and keep Joanna because he knew he loved her. He just would not marry her.
Joanna is a heroine who I would by default dislike: completely devoted to the hero and waiting for a marriage proposal. But somehow I didn't mind her so much. I thought she was sweet. She became pregnant and wanted to share the news with James, thinking that James would for sure ask her to marry him right away. Well she was wrong. James, as I said, was an ASS!! So she was heartbroken and told James to f himself. They fought and said awful things to each other but both tried to make up because they were both just IN LOVE. So the entire story is about how James came around to realize that "love and marraige go together like a horse and carriage". Joanna lost the baby. James learned about the baby much later and rushed back to Joanna. He still did not change his mind though. Monica McCarty threw in Sir David who played the unfortunate suitor who was doomed to lose the girl. James was pissed off and told Sir David to stay away from Joanna. There you have it: a man who is not ready to offer himself but wants to keep the woman anyways.
What redeemed James though, was that he was RELENTLESS in his pursuits, even when he still thought marrying Joanna was out of the question. That saved him in my eyes. He knew that he wanted Joanna for the entire book. He tried different tactics and finally realized there was nothing that he wouldn't do to win Joanna.
Having read The Raider first, my mental image for "The Black Douglas" is a menacing one. I imagined James to be fierce, dark, unforgiving and cruel. Much older and cynical. But in this book James acted like a 25-year-old boy (come think of it, he was 25) and in the second half he became a lover bear! I had trouble piecing my scary James Douglas together with this besotted James Douglas. Such a mismatch, my mind could not reconcile.
I have to say this is a rather endearing story. James' longing and love were vividly illustrated. He was an asshole but I think he did some really impressive groveling. I wish the epilogue and the end had more details. It ended too happily too soon.
I say this in all my novella reviews: "I don't like novellas." Most of the time I just end up feeling rushed. But I have had one 4-star novella read (all other novellas are lucky to snatch 3 stars) until today. And from today on, I have 2 4-star novellas.
I won't go on and on about how great a writer Monica McCarty is. It's an established fact and even when I don't like the characters, her books never fail to make an impression on me. Fantastic writing, period. The way she tells a story........she is just one hell of a storyteller. You read on and become mesmerized in the world she builds in her books. Her books are always intense and emotional. No fake conflicts for the sake of the story. She explores real human emotions and you cannot help but feel all the "I don't know what to do" and "I wish things were different".
To the characters: James is an ASS! lol This is one romance hero who knew that he loved the heroine from page 1. James and Joanna were childhood friends and they have long known that they loved each other. James being the son of the Lord and Joanna being the daughter of the marshal, their match was socially incompatible. They both knew that. James, being the arrogant ass taht he was, thought they had an "understanding". He was planning on making Joanna his leman so that he could have a political marriage to satisfy his ambition and have love by keeping Joanna on the side. He wanted to marry "well" to advance his political status and marrying Joanna was out of the question. He thought Joanna would "understand" and fully expected that Joanna would be happy to have only his love and not his name. He fully intended to provide for and keep Joanna because he knew he loved her. He just would not marry her.
Joanna is a heroine who I would by default dislike: completely devoted to the hero and waiting for a marriage proposal. But somehow I didn't mind her so much. I thought she was sweet. She became pregnant and wanted to share the news with James, thinking that James would for sure ask her to marry him right away. Well she was wrong. James, as I said, was an ASS!! So she was heartbroken and told James to f himself. They fought and said awful things to each other but both tried to make up because they were both just IN LOVE. So the entire story is about how James came around to realize that "love and marraige go together like a horse and carriage". Joanna lost the baby. James learned about the baby much later and rushed back to Joanna. He still did not change his mind though. Monica McCarty threw in Sir David who played the unfortunate suitor who was doomed to lose the girl. James was pissed off and told Sir David to stay away from Joanna. There you have it: a man who is not ready to offer himself but wants to keep the woman anyways.
What redeemed James though, was that he was RELENTLESS in his pursuits, even when he still thought marrying Joanna was out of the question. That saved him in my eyes. He knew that he wanted Joanna for the entire book. He tried different tactics and finally realized there was nothing that he wouldn't do to win Joanna.
Having read The Raider first, my mental image for "The Black Douglas" is a menacing one. I imagined James to be fierce, dark, unforgiving and cruel. Much older and cynical. But in this book James acted like a 25-year-old boy (come think of it, he was 25) and in the second half he became a lover bear! I had trouble piecing my scary James Douglas together with this besotted James Douglas. Such a mismatch, my mind could not reconcile.
I have to say this is a rather endearing story. James' longing and love were vividly illustrated. He was an asshole but I think he did some really impressive groveling. I wish the epilogue and the end had more details. It ended too happily too soon.
May 19, 2024
Jo/Joanna the starry eyed fool and James the thoughtless egoist.
So Jo is how old and still thought James was going to marry her, back in a time when women married in their early teens? But hey she was in lurve and probably a little hero worship too.
James really is an ass and I loved that about the story. There was no excusing his bad behavior. So he really had to try to redeem himself to Jo.
I thought he did, but somehow I didn't really care too much after the first half.
Maybe I just didn't feel their great love. The story opens up with his telling her a few hurtful home truths about their relationship... aka he will never marry her because she wouldn't be able to help his career. So I didn't get to see them actually in love and him being sweet to her.
To me it seemed more about sex to him.
But it's short and so I finished it. I think this author just isn't my cuppa.
Safety is good i think
So Jo is how old and still thought James was going to marry her, back in a time when women married in their early teens? But hey she was in lurve and probably a little hero worship too.
James really is an ass and I loved that about the story. There was no excusing his bad behavior. So he really had to try to redeem himself to Jo.
I thought he did, but somehow I didn't really care too much after the first half.
Maybe I just didn't feel their great love. The story opens up with his telling her a few hurtful home truths about their relationship... aka he will never marry her because she wouldn't be able to help his career. So I didn't get to see them actually in love and him being sweet to her.
To me it seemed more about sex to him.
But it's short and so I finished it. I think this author just isn't my cuppa.
Safety is good i think
March 7, 2015
Jesus, I didn't think James would this big of an ass. Poor Joanna. Though she's naive and quite frankly a little stupid, I hated James' guts the most.
It's too short but we do get a story. It has an okay Epilogue but I was hoping for more.
Sorry if you love this but James was a deal breaker for me. Nope, I wouldn't recommend.
It's too short but we do get a story. It has an okay Epilogue but I was hoping for more.
Sorry if you love this but James was a deal breaker for me. Nope, I wouldn't recommend.
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February 3, 2014
We all love to read about Lord Douche the Warrior turning into an ideal husband because of a woman's love. What we don't quite like, I suspect, is him behaving like Lord Douche even though he's with the lady.
The characterization was quite lacking for me, as with the later books of the series. I wish the author would take a leaf from her earlier works- and make these uncompromising hardened men into more relatable heroes.
The characterization was quite lacking for me, as with the later books of the series. I wish the author would take a leaf from her earlier works- and make these uncompromising hardened men into more relatable heroes.
October 15, 2025
Re read. I love this story. It is saturated in Alpha maleness (if that’s a thing?) The H and h was so perfect together. Loved it. Plot 8(1-10) steaminess 8(1-10).
Great short book.
Great short book.
February 16, 2019
Wow ... intense and angsty story of a H who sleeps with his childhood friend h without meaning to marry her ... he tries to convince her to be his mistress but she remains adamant not to give in ...
this one piled on the angst ... H made a great example of an entitled jerk who regretted his actions a lot ... h was brave and so much in love with him .. but I liked the way she grew and realized that she didn't have to put him on a pedestal ... a great read and this is basically one of my favorite plots ... MM executed it so well .... H grovels; a lot ... but what I liked most of all; H was busy behaving like a jerk but there is no doubt that he loves the h ...
this one piled on the angst ... H made a great example of an entitled jerk who regretted his actions a lot ... h was brave and so much in love with him .. but I liked the way she grew and realized that she didn't have to put him on a pedestal ... a great read and this is basically one of my favorite plots ... MM executed it so well .... H grovels; a lot ... but what I liked most of all; H was busy behaving like a jerk but there is no doubt that he loves the h ...
January 5, 2016
igual es el que menos chicha tiene pero también es que es cortito. Necesario para conocer dos personajes que luego aparecerán: James Douglas ( que a mi Sí me ha a gustado a pesar de lo que diga Ana Hunter) y Thomas Mc Gowan que será The Rock. Por cierto ella no me va nada, aunque en the Raider mejore es pelin pava aunque la Mccarty la disfrace de stubborn.
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December 2, 2013Chapter 1 can be read now! http://monicamccarty.com/books/knight...
November 6, 2023
Loved the angst!
January 30, 2014
Compared to the rest of the Highland Guard novels, this novella was a bit disappointing. She usually has a nice balance between action on the battlefield and in the bedroom, but they were so reduced here that the story felt rushed and unfinished. James sacks castle after castle, but we only get to experience part of the first one. The others have maybe a paragraph dedicated to each, glossing over scenes that could have made James a more likeable character.
Instead of empathizing with what drives James' ambition and silently begging Joanna to forgive him, we only have time to find him selfish and, at times, idiotic. We're glad Joanna turns him away so many times and he realizes he took her for granted. But when the inevitable happy ending comes along, it's a disappointment. James doesn't have enough redeeming qualities to make everything okay in the end.
What I really enjoyed was the twist with Joanna. I expected another pregnant heroine like in The Recruit, and all the same struggles she had. The drastically different situation was a welcomed slap in the face, putting this story on a different level than the others in this series. While it is sadly my least favorite so far, The Knight is worth the hour or so it takes to read.
Instead of empathizing with what drives James' ambition and silently begging Joanna to forgive him, we only have time to find him selfish and, at times, idiotic. We're glad Joanna turns him away so many times and he realizes he took her for granted. But when the inevitable happy ending comes along, it's a disappointment. James doesn't have enough redeeming qualities to make everything okay in the end.
What I really enjoyed was the twist with Joanna. I expected another pregnant heroine like in The Recruit, and all the same struggles she had. The drastically different situation was a welcomed slap in the face, putting this story on a different level than the others in this series. While it is sadly my least favorite so far, The Knight is worth the hour or so it takes to read.
March 4, 2017
Now this little gem of a novella is an angst-fest! I found myself having to set it down for moments at a time just to process the emotions of the characters. Wow. Basically, James is a lord with the ambition of restoring his family name to its rightful place. Jo is the girl he's loved since they were kids. Only, in order to achieve his ambition, he can't marry Jo, who is a lowly Marshal's daughter. So the moment when she realizes he's not going to honor her with marriage (even though he's taken her innocence) and he realizes that she never really understood that she could only be his leman. Well, it's brutal. And my only complaint is that James comes across as so hateful (and I gotta love the heroine for the spine she shows here! No simpering wimp who abandons her beliefs because she's lusting after the hero) that I honestly did not believe he could redeem himself. I'm still a little unsure whether he actually did or not, but he gave it his all. So I left this story satisfied that he had groveled enough...but it was very uncomfortable watching James flounder after he screwed up as badly as he did. I honestly had several moments when I thought the heroine was better off without him and I admit to peeking at the end of the book to see whether he could redeem himself. I'm definitely adding this author to my reading list.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 14, 2019
I have been loving every book of McCarty's Highland Guard series so far. This is my least favorite and I'm glad it was just a novella. I just did not like Douglas. He took the woman he loved for granted and completely broke her heart. The pain and struggle that poor lass had to endure when her man should have stood by her side was heart wrenching. While the ending was sweet, I just didn't feel like he did enough groveling to make up for being a giant arse. I loved Joanna. She has so much character development and growth in such a short span of pages. She goes from that starry-eyed young girl in love with a knight, to a heart broken woman struggling to heal and finally to a strong confident woman who knows her worth. Her journey was awesome!
October 1, 2017
Ugh, James is such an immature dick. Fuck him.
February 16, 2025
I did not like this book. I can't believe I'm actually giving a Monica McCarty book a 1 star rating. James Douglas was a self-centered a** in this book.
January 25, 2017
The Knight is a novella, so if you've ever read any of Monica McCarty's Highland Guard books before, be prepared for a much shorter story, with a loss less historical details (although the author's note at the end shows you that fiction is very well weaved withing the know facts of history).
The Knight is essentially focused on the romance between James and Joanna, and contains only passing references to the war raging in Scotland at the time, and to the other members of the Highland Guard. This makes The Knight much easier to read as a stand alone book but, as a fan of the series, I would obviously prefer a full sized novel instead of a novella.
James is a very hard to love hero, because, truth be told, he treats Joanna horribly for about two thirds of the length of the book. Still, if you think about the time and place of the story, I'm pretty sure his actions are not out of context.
So, if you love historical romance and are looking for a quick read, this is recommended. Otherwise, my suggestion would be to read the whole Highland Guard series in the right order (as I, for once, I'm doing). You can find details on all the books in the series at the author's website.
The Knight is essentially focused on the romance between James and Joanna, and contains only passing references to the war raging in Scotland at the time, and to the other members of the Highland Guard. This makes The Knight much easier to read as a stand alone book but, as a fan of the series, I would obviously prefer a full sized novel instead of a novella.
James is a very hard to love hero, because, truth be told, he treats Joanna horribly for about two thirds of the length of the book. Still, if you think about the time and place of the story, I'm pretty sure his actions are not out of context.
So, if you love historical romance and are looking for a quick read, this is recommended. Otherwise, my suggestion would be to read the whole Highland Guard series in the right order (as I, for once, I'm doing). You can find details on all the books in the series at the author's website.
March 17, 2025
2.3. 🖤🔥💧
"She looked into the handsome face of the man she’d thought she would love forever and almost hated him."
🖤 James je bio teški idiot. Ono šta je on napravio, po meni je bilo neoprostivo i ja mu ne bi dopustila da se vrati.
💧 Joanna je bila naivna djevojka, koja je s punim pravom vjerovala u Jamesa. Kad ju je on već razočarao, uspils jr nastavit dalje. Zato ne znam što ju je potaknulo da mu se vrati. To što je on odbio kraljevu sestru za ženu je minimum, a ne vau stvar.
🔥 Nisu svi parovi stvoreni jedno za drugo, a ovaj pogotovo.
"She looked into the handsome face of the man she’d thought she would love forever and almost hated him."
🖤 James je bio teški idiot. Ono šta je on napravio, po meni je bilo neoprostivo i ja mu ne bi dopustila da se vrati.
💧 Joanna je bila naivna djevojka, koja je s punim pravom vjerovala u Jamesa. Kad ju je on već razočarao, uspils jr nastavit dalje. Zato ne znam što ju je potaknulo da mu se vrati. To što je on odbio kraljevu sestru za ženu je minimum, a ne vau stvar.
🔥 Nisu svi parovi stvoreni jedno za drugo, a ovaj pogotovo.
March 3, 2015
The Knight – Highland Guard #7.5
I read this book after I read The Arrow which was the 9th book in the series. I didn’t realize I’d missed a book and when I did, I wasn’t going to read it but my Highland Guard withdrawals proved to be too much so I gave in and read it.
It was more of a novella which you probably already figured from the number of the book, 7.5. Although it was short, it packed a punch….A punch like what I wanted to do to the protagonist many times throughout the book. He was so arrogant and misogynistic! Ugh!!!!
Most of the books of the Highland Guard are about the individual warriors in Robert Bruce’s secret Highland Guard, an elite group of warriors who go on missions for Bruce, but this book was about one of the men who fought alongside Robert Bruce and before him, William Wallace.
James Douglas known as the Black Douglas will do just about anything to elevate himself and his family and to restore his clan to where they were before the English destroyed them. He is bound by honor and duty and won’t let anything get in the way of that not even the love he has for his childhood sweetheart. He hates the English with a passion and wants to see them defeated.
Joanna Dicson has stood behind James Douglas and loved him since they were children. She knows that they were always meant to be together. He’s told her that he wants to build her a castle and they’d be together forever. Shortly after James made love to her and took her maidenhood, he was called away to war where he spends most of his time fighting for Robert Bruce. He’s been gone three months but he is on his way home and she can’t wait to tell him the news about her pregnancy. She meets him up on the hill that has become their spot. He tells her he has only a few minutes with her but somehow they end up making love again. She tries to tell him that they need to move up the wedding date because she is pregnant but before she can tell him that she is pregnant, he stops her and tells her that there will be no wedding. He told her that he though she understood that he has to marry a noblewoman for the good of his clan. She had no time to argue since he was in a hurry and he left in a rush.
Joanna is devastated. She had thought that James meant to marry her but he only wanted to keep her as his leman. A common practice amongst Scottish nobleman was to keep women outside their marriages like mistresses. She would have never slept with him if she would have known. Never the less, she decided to talk to him the next day. He was in a hurry once again. He was called to duty for another mission. They argued and she told him that she would not be his leman. In anger, he told her that if she was giving him an ultimatum, it was over between them. This is where I wanted to slap him…okay, I wanted to punch him. Then to make matters worse, while he is walking away, he tells someone who asked who she was that she was nobody and “only” the marshal’s daughter. At this point, I’m really having a hard time liking James Douglas.
After James leaves, Joanna is so heartbroken and thinking about how she will be ruined, called a whore and her child will be a bastard. She runs off wildly and collides with a horse and rider and careens down a rocky hill.
Meanwhile, James is off fighting. He can’t get away to even go see Joanna to tell her he didn’t mean that they were over. He thinks that she will change her mind and stay with him even though he can’t marry her. She’s always looked at him like he hung the moon. What an arrogant arse!
Months after Joanna’s accident, he’s shocked when he is told about Joanna’s accident and even more shocked when he learns she was pregnant and lost the baby. He has to go find her to make things better but what he doesn’t know is that Joanna has left to get a fresh start.
After her accident, she struggled for her life for weeks. She managed to keep the fact that she was pregnant a secret from everyone but a few people. She is overwhelmed with sorrow but her naiveté about James loving her is gone. In its place is the cold reality that she has to let her love go for him and she has to go on with life. She leaves her home to make a new life.
I thought that Joanna was such a strong character and I felt bad for her but liked that she picked herself up to make a life for herself. I also liked that she would not settle for less than what she deserved.
My favorite part in the book was when James first saw Joanna after the accident and realized she wasn’t going to just accept him back into her life. He was stunned when she wasn’t happy to see him and that she didn’t look at him with love in her eyes anymore. I thought it served him right for how he took her for granted.
I was glad I decided to read the book. It was heartfelt and wreaked havoc on my emotions. Monica McCarty has a way of playing with my emotions. I mean, I’ve read romances for hundreds of years….okay, I’m not quite that old but you get my point…and rarely do my emotions get the better of me. Most romances are predictable and I know where they will end but not Monica’s romances. They make me laugh, then a half hour later, I’m wiping the tears away from my eyes. That is some remarkable writing!
I like her writing so much that I have decided to read her Campbell trilogy.
www.paranormalromanceslut.com
I read this book after I read The Arrow which was the 9th book in the series. I didn’t realize I’d missed a book and when I did, I wasn’t going to read it but my Highland Guard withdrawals proved to be too much so I gave in and read it.
It was more of a novella which you probably already figured from the number of the book, 7.5. Although it was short, it packed a punch….A punch like what I wanted to do to the protagonist many times throughout the book. He was so arrogant and misogynistic! Ugh!!!!
Most of the books of the Highland Guard are about the individual warriors in Robert Bruce’s secret Highland Guard, an elite group of warriors who go on missions for Bruce, but this book was about one of the men who fought alongside Robert Bruce and before him, William Wallace.
James Douglas known as the Black Douglas will do just about anything to elevate himself and his family and to restore his clan to where they were before the English destroyed them. He is bound by honor and duty and won’t let anything get in the way of that not even the love he has for his childhood sweetheart. He hates the English with a passion and wants to see them defeated.
Joanna Dicson has stood behind James Douglas and loved him since they were children. She knows that they were always meant to be together. He’s told her that he wants to build her a castle and they’d be together forever. Shortly after James made love to her and took her maidenhood, he was called away to war where he spends most of his time fighting for Robert Bruce. He’s been gone three months but he is on his way home and she can’t wait to tell him the news about her pregnancy. She meets him up on the hill that has become their spot. He tells her he has only a few minutes with her but somehow they end up making love again. She tries to tell him that they need to move up the wedding date because she is pregnant but before she can tell him that she is pregnant, he stops her and tells her that there will be no wedding. He told her that he though she understood that he has to marry a noblewoman for the good of his clan. She had no time to argue since he was in a hurry and he left in a rush.
Joanna is devastated. She had thought that James meant to marry her but he only wanted to keep her as his leman. A common practice amongst Scottish nobleman was to keep women outside their marriages like mistresses. She would have never slept with him if she would have known. Never the less, she decided to talk to him the next day. He was in a hurry once again. He was called to duty for another mission. They argued and she told him that she would not be his leman. In anger, he told her that if she was giving him an ultimatum, it was over between them. This is where I wanted to slap him…okay, I wanted to punch him. Then to make matters worse, while he is walking away, he tells someone who asked who she was that she was nobody and “only” the marshal’s daughter. At this point, I’m really having a hard time liking James Douglas.
After James leaves, Joanna is so heartbroken and thinking about how she will be ruined, called a whore and her child will be a bastard. She runs off wildly and collides with a horse and rider and careens down a rocky hill.
Meanwhile, James is off fighting. He can’t get away to even go see Joanna to tell her he didn’t mean that they were over. He thinks that she will change her mind and stay with him even though he can’t marry her. She’s always looked at him like he hung the moon. What an arrogant arse!
Months after Joanna’s accident, he’s shocked when he is told about Joanna’s accident and even more shocked when he learns she was pregnant and lost the baby. He has to go find her to make things better but what he doesn’t know is that Joanna has left to get a fresh start.
After her accident, she struggled for her life for weeks. She managed to keep the fact that she was pregnant a secret from everyone but a few people. She is overwhelmed with sorrow but her naiveté about James loving her is gone. In its place is the cold reality that she has to let her love go for him and she has to go on with life. She leaves her home to make a new life.
I thought that Joanna was such a strong character and I felt bad for her but liked that she picked herself up to make a life for herself. I also liked that she would not settle for less than what she deserved.
My favorite part in the book was when James first saw Joanna after the accident and realized she wasn’t going to just accept him back into her life. He was stunned when she wasn’t happy to see him and that she didn’t look at him with love in her eyes anymore. I thought it served him right for how he took her for granted.
I was glad I decided to read the book. It was heartfelt and wreaked havoc on my emotions. Monica McCarty has a way of playing with my emotions. I mean, I’ve read romances for hundreds of years….okay, I’m not quite that old but you get my point…and rarely do my emotions get the better of me. Most romances are predictable and I know where they will end but not Monica’s romances. They make me laugh, then a half hour later, I’m wiping the tears away from my eyes. That is some remarkable writing!
I like her writing so much that I have decided to read her Campbell trilogy.
www.paranormalromanceslut.com
November 30, 2022
This novella was a pretty quick read. Not my favorite characters in the series but that would have been difficult comparing the novella to the full length novels. It was nice to see a bit more about James considering he seems to be one of the frequent recurring characters outside of the guard. Joanna was cool too and I'm glad she stood her ground.
January 16, 2024
I enjoyed this short and a bit angsty story. It's only 180ish pages but quite packed with emotions. I loved that the Hero had to grovel and beg for forgiveness, even though it could have been prolonged longer hahah. Pleasantly surprised about this book, in a good way.
April 6, 2025
Great story
This is a very good series about the secret army Bruce had and their loves. This is James and Joanna's story about finding love and how important it is.
This is a very good series about the secret army Bruce had and their loves. This is James and Joanna's story about finding love and how important it is.
April 10, 2015
This was a short story that satisfied my inner AAAANGST Whore. Joanna and James are in love at the beginning of the book. When Joanna finds herself in a position to need to be married, she presses James for a wedding date, only to find that he has never had any intention of marrying her, as she is far below his stratosphere and he had only ever intended to keep her as a leman (a.k.a., a mistress). Heartbroken, Joanna does her best to move on, just as James realizes what a mistake he's made in letting her go.
When I referred to my inner Angst Whore I wasn't being self-deprecating. I'm not proud of it, but I love romance novels where the hero puts the heroine through the ringer, only to do some serious groveling at the end and redeem himself (this only works satisfactorily when the hero actually does grovel and most romance novels don't have nearly enough for some crimes). It's the sadist in me. But boy does James ever grovel. I read another review, either on this site or on Amazon where the reviewer didn't think James did nearly enough considering what he'd done to Joanna, but I didn't agree. As it was, I felt satisfied with what he had to do to get Joanna back and couldn't see that there was any more that he could do without coming off as a 19th century-style psychotic stalker type. All that said, it would have absolutely served James right if he had come home to find out Joanna had gone off to marry someone else and he had to stop her from going through with it. He really was a pretty big alphole for the first 40% of the book.
I'm actually not sure why I didn't give this 5 stars, other than the fact that I almost never give books five stars. Five-star books to me are like porn: you know it when you see it. And even though this is making it onto my keeper shelf and I will happily re-read it again, I just didn't feel like this one was five-star material. Just don't ask me to tell you why.
I would recommend this if you're looking for a short read and you want a hero who does some serious screwing up that he has to make up for. There is plenty of angst in this one. I did like both Joanna, in spite of all her early naivite, which she eventually gets over, and James, in spite of his early myopic, selfish ambition, which he also eventually gets over.
When I referred to my inner Angst Whore I wasn't being self-deprecating. I'm not proud of it, but I love romance novels where the hero puts the heroine through the ringer, only to do some serious groveling at the end and redeem himself (this only works satisfactorily when the hero actually does grovel and most romance novels don't have nearly enough for some crimes). It's the sadist in me. But boy does James ever grovel. I read another review, either on this site or on Amazon where the reviewer didn't think James did nearly enough considering what he'd done to Joanna, but I didn't agree. As it was, I felt satisfied with what he had to do to get Joanna back and couldn't see that there was any more that he could do without coming off as a 19th century-style psychotic stalker type. All that said, it would have absolutely served James right if he had come home to find out Joanna had gone off to marry someone else and he had to stop her from going through with it. He really was a pretty big alphole for the first 40% of the book.
I'm actually not sure why I didn't give this 5 stars, other than the fact that I almost never give books five stars. Five-star books to me are like porn: you know it when you see it. And even though this is making it onto my keeper shelf and I will happily re-read it again, I just didn't feel like this one was five-star material. Just don't ask me to tell you why.
I would recommend this if you're looking for a short read and you want a hero who does some serious screwing up that he has to make up for. There is plenty of angst in this one. I did like both Joanna, in spite of all her early naivite, which she eventually gets over, and James, in spite of his early myopic, selfish ambition, which he also eventually gets over.
October 30, 2014
James Douglas is a warrior fighting for Robert the Bruce in 1311. Joanna Dicson, the marshall’s daughter, grew up with James and the two have loved each other for years, consummating their relationship the last time James was home from campaign. James rises quickly within the Bruce’s ranks and earns the nickname “The Black Douglas” for his ruthless and effective fighting style. Years ago, the Douglas title and lands were stripped from James’ family by the English king and he has been on a vengeance quest to reclaim them ever since. A mission from Robert brings him back to his hometown where he meets up with Joanna again. Unbeknownst to James, Joanna carries his child, but when he tells her that he cannot marry her, she is devastated. What follows is a story of love, loss, and learning to value family over ambition.
At the beginning of the story, Joanna Dicson is a sweet, but naive young woman in love with James Douglas. She believes that James’ love means he will marry her, even though they come from two vastly different social statuses. As reality comes crashing down around her, she learns to stand on her own, growing a backbone and dignity that refuses to settle for anything less than James’ wife (not his leman!).
James is egotistical and ambitious — not a healthy combination when it means shoving aside those that have loved you and stood by you for an untold number of years. His treatment of Joanna in the first half of the novella was absolutely appalling, to the point where I believed that he didn’t deserve someone like Joanna. He eventually saw the error of his actions and begins to court Joanna properly, but it took many months to get to that point.
Both of these characters were immature at the beginning of this novella and the main push of the character development is the journey that changes them into more mature adults ready to face the future together. A good afternoon read, especially if you enjoy stories where you’re not certain if the couple will actually get together and the hero must do some serious groveling at the heroine’s feet to make up for his earlier transgressions.
Originally posted at Plot Twist Reviews [dot] Com
At the beginning of the story, Joanna Dicson is a sweet, but naive young woman in love with James Douglas. She believes that James’ love means he will marry her, even though they come from two vastly different social statuses. As reality comes crashing down around her, she learns to stand on her own, growing a backbone and dignity that refuses to settle for anything less than James’ wife (not his leman!).
James is egotistical and ambitious — not a healthy combination when it means shoving aside those that have loved you and stood by you for an untold number of years. His treatment of Joanna in the first half of the novella was absolutely appalling, to the point where I believed that he didn’t deserve someone like Joanna. He eventually saw the error of his actions and begins to court Joanna properly, but it took many months to get to that point.
Both of these characters were immature at the beginning of this novella and the main push of the character development is the journey that changes them into more mature adults ready to face the future together. A good afternoon read, especially if you enjoy stories where you’re not certain if the couple will actually get together and the hero must do some serious groveling at the heroine’s feet to make up for his earlier transgressions.
Originally posted at Plot Twist Reviews [dot] Com
September 15, 2020
I can honestly say that so far James Douglas is truly the "highlander" that I hated the most.
I might have forgiven him by the end of the story, but I sure as hell did not forget.
Joanna deserved so much more than him, he was a first-class son-of-a-b****.
This was a novella or a short-story, if you want, so there wasn't much that took place in terms of Bruce's war. There was a mention of an episode or another.
It was definitely mainly focused on their relationship.
I can say that by the end I was appeased enough with the groveling he did not to hate him completely, but I am still rilled up about it.
For god's sake, I almost shed a tear or two when he broke up with Joanna, the girl who admired him so much, who had been his childhood friend, who was just there for him. She meant so much to him, that he said that she was "no one" and that she meant "nothing", when someone asked him about her.
Pathetic and ridiculous. I don't care about the trauma he went through or past. He was an as*****!
I finish this review saying that I am only giving this book 1 star, I think it's obvious why.
I might have forgiven him by the end of the story, but I sure as hell did not forget.
Joanna deserved so much more than him, he was a first-class son-of-a-b****.
This was a novella or a short-story, if you want, so there wasn't much that took place in terms of Bruce's war. There was a mention of an episode or another.
It was definitely mainly focused on their relationship.
I can say that by the end I was appeased enough with the groveling he did not to hate him completely, but I am still rilled up about it.
For god's sake, I almost shed a tear or two when he broke up with Joanna, the girl who admired him so much, who had been his childhood friend, who was just there for him. She meant so much to him, that he said that she was "no one" and that she meant "nothing", when someone asked him about her.
Pathetic and ridiculous. I don't care about the trauma he went through or past. He was an as*****!
I finish this review saying that I am only giving this book 1 star, I think it's obvious why.
January 5, 2016
Another enchanting novella to start the new year magically! The Knight is a short story but it was so well written and compelling I felt like I was reading a full lenght novel. James Douglas has been a surprise in more ways than one. Like the Highland Guard members, he was imposing, handsome, fierce and a very sexy and tender lover. Yet, he also managed to piss me off because of his stubborness and blindness! He took some time to understand his error and how essential was Joanna to him but when he did, he crawled and earned her forgiveness!
Joanna was an incredible heroine I loved from the start. She was sweet, kind, loyal, generous and strong. I suffered for her loss and her heartache. She was the perfect half for James but sometimes I thought he didn't deserve her. XD
There were even some hot scenes I enjoyed quite a lot! ;)
Now, I can't wait to dive into the next volume and finally read about the formidable Robby Boyd! I have a feeling I'm so going to enjoy seeing him succumb to love! :P
Joanna was an incredible heroine I loved from the start. She was sweet, kind, loyal, generous and strong. I suffered for her loss and her heartache. She was the perfect half for James but sometimes I thought he didn't deserve her. XD
There were even some hot scenes I enjoyed quite a lot! ;)
Now, I can't wait to dive into the next volume and finally read about the formidable Robby Boyd! I have a feeling I'm so going to enjoy seeing him succumb to love! :P
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