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Highland Rogue
1711. They call him the Piper. A masked bandit seeking vengeance for his people, Quinn MacIntyre leaves his victims with empty pockets and a haunting tune played on the pipes that once gave him great joy. But when a flame-haired minx stumbles across his path, she awakens a new song in his heart. Now, the outlaw faces a challenge more daunting than the duke's patrols: Letting go of the past and embracing the future.
Present Day. On her dream vacation in the Scottish Highlands, aspiring archaeologist Maggie Graham discovers a tri-spiral carving in the floor of an ancient cairn and unwittingly sets its dormant magic in motion. Sent tumbling back in time three hundred years, Maggie uncovers the most amazing find of all—a Scottish hero straight out of her wildest fantasies. There are just two tiny problems with this grand adventure: She's trapped in eighteenth-century Scotland, and the man she's fallen for is an outlaw, a thief, a...Highland Rogue.
Present Day. On her dream vacation in the Scottish Highlands, aspiring archaeologist Maggie Graham discovers a tri-spiral carving in the floor of an ancient cairn and unwittingly sets its dormant magic in motion. Sent tumbling back in time three hundred years, Maggie uncovers the most amazing find of all—a Scottish hero straight out of her wildest fantasies. There are just two tiny problems with this grand adventure: She's trapped in eighteenth-century Scotland, and the man she's fallen for is an outlaw, a thief, a...Highland Rogue.
296 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 6, 2008
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Tess Mallory
12 books46 followersTess Mallory still believes in fairies, so she strives to make her books as magical as possible, filled with romance, humor, history, fun, and fantasy. Her life has been pretty magical, too. Not perfect, but truly blessed. She's a breast cancer survivor married to a guy so understanding, his name should be in lights, their three children love her in spite of the dragon shirts she loves to wear, and she has a precious granddaughter. Tess and her family live in the Texas hill country. Make her day by dropping her a note at tessmallory@yahoo.com.
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June 18, 2008
I enjoyed reading Tess Mallory's time travel books. It's been several years since she's published a new one so I was thrilled to pick up "Highland Rogue", her latest and (I hope) the start of a new series.
Maggie is finally going to live her dream. She's been accepted as a worker bee on an archaeological dig IN SCOTLAND! When the dig leader offers to show her an ogham, she accompanies him to an ancient cairn where she actually trips over what turns out to be a stunning find...a huge carving in the stone floor of a tri-spiral or triskele. That night, unable to sleep, she visits the cairn alone, walks the triskele, and repeats the words on the ogham. The next thing she knows, she's apparently traveled back in time...to 1711!
Quinn, also known as the bandit Piper who robs the rich to help his downtrodden countrymen, is fleeing a successful robbery with his blood brother when a woman appears from nowhere and causes his friend to be shot and captured. He decides to use her guilt to help him free his friend. Once his friend is free, she can go her own way...and good riddance...really...ummm, maybe?
This is a fun, laughter-filled read that will have you cheering for these two as they bicker and battle their way into a warm, then passionate, relationship. If you like braw Highlanders in kilts and laughter...pick up this latest by Ms Mallory. I'm glad I did!
Maggie is finally going to live her dream. She's been accepted as a worker bee on an archaeological dig IN SCOTLAND! When the dig leader offers to show her an ogham, she accompanies him to an ancient cairn where she actually trips over what turns out to be a stunning find...a huge carving in the stone floor of a tri-spiral or triskele. That night, unable to sleep, she visits the cairn alone, walks the triskele, and repeats the words on the ogham. The next thing she knows, she's apparently traveled back in time...to 1711!
Quinn, also known as the bandit Piper who robs the rich to help his downtrodden countrymen, is fleeing a successful robbery with his blood brother when a woman appears from nowhere and causes his friend to be shot and captured. He decides to use her guilt to help him free his friend. Once his friend is free, she can go her own way...and good riddance...really...ummm, maybe?
This is a fun, laughter-filled read that will have you cheering for these two as they bicker and battle their way into a warm, then passionate, relationship. If you like braw Highlanders in kilts and laughter...pick up this latest by Ms Mallory. I'm glad I did!
August 1, 2011
I always enjoy a good time travel, and Highland Rogue is a good one. It starts a little slow before getting down to the nitty gritty, but once there we get some great action, an involved storyline, and the characters are interesting and true to themselves throughout the book.
In the beginning a little too much time is taken, for me, in getting to the traveling part of the story. We learn about Maggie and her sisters, how they lost their parents and how she had to leave her dreams behind to raise the twins, and now that they’re grown she can’t seem to let go and finally start living her life. The twins and Rachel, Maggie’s best friend, surprise her on her birthday with a trip to Scotland because she loves everything Scottish. We even spend time in present day Scotland on an archeological dig where Maggie has to fend off the guy in charge while she’s trying to have some fun for a bit. It all could have been condensed down to get to the meat of the story so much faster.
Once in the past things get much more interesting. Quinn and his best friend Ian have turned to highway robbery against the man who killed Quinn’s parents while he also paid for Quinn’s schooling as a piper. They’re ready to up the game and begin hitting the Duke of Montrose in his personal pockets, and this is when Maggie is thrown into their time. As Ian is making his getaway from their most recent heist, she appears right in the middle of the melee causing Ian’s horse to shy as Quinn attempts to rescue her. Ian is subsequently taken prisoner, and it is up to Quinn to free him from the Duke’s dungeons because Rob Roy MacGregor, Ian’s kin, won’t chance the repercussions to the rest of his family.
Needing some type of help, Quinn guilts Maggie into helping him by garnering employment in the Duke’s home to see what she can uncover of Ian’s fate. We meet all sorts of characters there while also seeing how life was for people not born into the nobility. By this time Quinn has feelings for Maggie and his duty ends up cleaving him in two to decide between friendship and love. I really enjoyed Quinn’s character, even if he is a highwayman. He’s exacting his own kind of vengeance, and it’s hard to believe the Duke didn’t make the connection between the thieves and their pipe playing after each successful robbery. There are a couple of twists and turns at the end that kept the storyline interesting.
Any time an author gives me a lot of traveling in my favorite type of paranormal, I’m usually pretty happy. Ms. Mallory does a great job of that and does it in a little bit different way than I’ve seen before, not the usual picture or passing out and finding a body in another time or things like that. This one is pretty believable and could happen to anyone who comes along at just the right time. I like all things Scottish just like Maggie. Wonder if I’d be as lucky traipsing through the Highlands?
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In the beginning a little too much time is taken, for me, in getting to the traveling part of the story. We learn about Maggie and her sisters, how they lost their parents and how she had to leave her dreams behind to raise the twins, and now that they’re grown she can’t seem to let go and finally start living her life. The twins and Rachel, Maggie’s best friend, surprise her on her birthday with a trip to Scotland because she loves everything Scottish. We even spend time in present day Scotland on an archeological dig where Maggie has to fend off the guy in charge while she’s trying to have some fun for a bit. It all could have been condensed down to get to the meat of the story so much faster.
Once in the past things get much more interesting. Quinn and his best friend Ian have turned to highway robbery against the man who killed Quinn’s parents while he also paid for Quinn’s schooling as a piper. They’re ready to up the game and begin hitting the Duke of Montrose in his personal pockets, and this is when Maggie is thrown into their time. As Ian is making his getaway from their most recent heist, she appears right in the middle of the melee causing Ian’s horse to shy as Quinn attempts to rescue her. Ian is subsequently taken prisoner, and it is up to Quinn to free him from the Duke’s dungeons because Rob Roy MacGregor, Ian’s kin, won’t chance the repercussions to the rest of his family.
Needing some type of help, Quinn guilts Maggie into helping him by garnering employment in the Duke’s home to see what she can uncover of Ian’s fate. We meet all sorts of characters there while also seeing how life was for people not born into the nobility. By this time Quinn has feelings for Maggie and his duty ends up cleaving him in two to decide between friendship and love. I really enjoyed Quinn’s character, even if he is a highwayman. He’s exacting his own kind of vengeance, and it’s hard to believe the Duke didn’t make the connection between the thieves and their pipe playing after each successful robbery. There are a couple of twists and turns at the end that kept the storyline interesting.
Any time an author gives me a lot of traveling in my favorite type of paranormal, I’m usually pretty happy. Ms. Mallory does a great job of that and does it in a little bit different way than I’ve seen before, not the usual picture or passing out and finding a body in another time or things like that. This one is pretty believable and could happen to anyone who comes along at just the right time. I like all things Scottish just like Maggie. Wonder if I’d be as lucky traipsing through the Highlands?
See my complete review at http://www.goodbadandunread.com
January 20, 2009
Highland Rogue by Tess Mallory
Paranormal Romance Paperback - May 6, 2008
4 Stars
Maggie Graham has placed her life on hold to care for her twin sisters after the death of her parents. Now that the girls are adults and on their own, she is ready to pick-up her life where she left off, traveling the world and making fantastic discoveries as an archeologist.
Wanting to encourage her dream, her sisters and best friend purchase a trip to Scotland to assist with the excavation of a newly discovered cairn. Loving all things Scottish, they also hope she finds the man of her dreams. Maggie can’t be happier about the trip, until she arrives and finds that the trip is nothing more than a fantasy excavation for tourists and not the serious work she had envisioned.
Quinn MacIntyre is known as the Piper, a Scottish Robin Hood that, with the help of his best-friend Ian, takes from the rich to give to the poor. The motive for his outlaw life stems from the desire to avenge the death of his family.
Maggie accidentally discovers that the cairn is a time-travel point when she is thrown from 2008 to Scotland 1711. Disoriented and not understanding what has happened to her, she stumbles onto Quinn and Ian’s path while in the middle of a high pursuit. Her sudden appearance sets into motion a series of events that end with Ian being shot.
Maggie and Quinn reluctantly join forces to learn what has happened to Ian. In the course of their team-work, they uncover feelings for each other. They each struggle with yielding to their desire and passion, while remaining loyal to family and friends.
Highland Rouge by Tess Mallory is a solid time travel romance fantasy. The characters are likeable as we follow their journey to find love and acceptance. This story touches the fantasy of time-travel not just from the point of being swept into the past, but also of being brought to the future.
Tess Mallory will continue with Ian’s story in Highland Rebel due out in March 3, 2009.
Reviewed by Cez from Bookaholics Romance Book Club
December 19, 2009
With time-travel romances, you have to be really careful. this was such a disappointment. It was stupid and annoying. I like that the hero ended up in the twenty-first century. but the book itself, while it had its moments, the book was not that well-put together. There was very little in the way of interaction with any other characters in the past until towards the end, and then they moved to the year 2008, and then they went back and (spoiler alert) faked his death, then it was done. It's a shame since time-travel romances are my fave especially when they involve hot scots, but this one was stupid.
May 16, 2009
I liked this Scottish time travel book. Quinn and Maggie seemed like interesting characters. There was apparently a lot of hanky panky in the bedroom (and haystack)going on back 300 years ago. I'm sure the two sisters will have their own books. The characters seem believable. It's funny when Quinn tries to adapt to Maggie's world.
March 25, 2009
I loved this book, but then again I love all Tess Mallory's books. Quinn is an amazing hunky hero & Maggie was a great heroine who did not have one too stupid to live moment.
Can't wait for her next book.
Can't wait for her next book.
November 22, 2011
I really liked this story, I loved the time travel in this novel as there was mostly past but with a bit of future. The characters we simple but interesting. Enjoyable read, Its more a novel to read when you want to just lay back and read.
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May 7, 2020
Nothing like I normally read but needed a break from books that were taking themselves a bit seriously! Had this on my shelf and it was exactly what I wanted. It is what it is and for what it is, it's very good.
July 14, 2023
The book that started me with highland romances. I remember reading this book in high school and falling in love. One of the few paperbacks I still have despite purging my collection after various moves!
July 13, 2022
LOVE Tess Mallory!
August 20, 2025
Maggie has always dreamt of a trip to Scotland, to visit the ruins and experience the culture and now she finally has that chance. Given a trip as a gift from her most beloved sisters, she is excited to finally see the Highlands. One day, while visiting a cairn just beyond a small village, she falls into a dizzy spell and upon waking, realizes something strange has happened. Gone are the other campers, the lights from the village and the ruins she came to visit are ruins no more. Lost, cold and stumbling around in the dark, she is set upon by a thundering horse and very nearly killed if a handsome Scottish man didn’t come quickly to her rescue.
Quinn and his brother in arms rob the wealthy lowlanders and English who travel the roads of wild Scotland. On the night of what he imagines to be a regular raid, he instead finds himself with the burden of a beautiful but strange young woman. In the process of saving her, his brother Ian, is captured by the soldiers who want nothing more then to see Quinn and his men hang. Angry over the injustice and himself for allowing Ian to be caught, he turns that anger towards Maggie whom he blames for the situation. He demands she aid him in Ian’s rescue.
Maggie wants to save the man as much as Quinn does and she is willing to put herself in harms way to do so by going under cover as a maid in the Duke’s household. Caring for Ian’s wounds and filtering information to Quinn about the layout of the keep, Maggie and Quinn fall into a sexual affair which quickly turns to love for Maggie. Now she’s torn by loving a man who will be long dead by the time she is born.
For a moment, at the start, I wondering if this book would exceed my expectations but sadly, it did not. I wasn’t expecting Outlander mind you, but I did see a spark of reasonable characters and a decent plotline only to have that spark fizzle away under silliness. Maggie proclaimed her love for Quinn after one night of sex and at the time, Quinn chided her (and rightly so) that she can’t possibly love him after one night. Problem was, shortly after, he was also claiming to love her in return. This is nonsense. There was no character growth present in this book, from start to end, so it all became a flatline for me. I had no attachment to Maggie as a character and what little I did for Quinn wasn’t enough to enthrall me.
This book was a miss in my opinion and I don’t see myself in a hurry to read any further in the series.
Quinn and his brother in arms rob the wealthy lowlanders and English who travel the roads of wild Scotland. On the night of what he imagines to be a regular raid, he instead finds himself with the burden of a beautiful but strange young woman. In the process of saving her, his brother Ian, is captured by the soldiers who want nothing more then to see Quinn and his men hang. Angry over the injustice and himself for allowing Ian to be caught, he turns that anger towards Maggie whom he blames for the situation. He demands she aid him in Ian’s rescue.
Maggie wants to save the man as much as Quinn does and she is willing to put herself in harms way to do so by going under cover as a maid in the Duke’s household. Caring for Ian’s wounds and filtering information to Quinn about the layout of the keep, Maggie and Quinn fall into a sexual affair which quickly turns to love for Maggie. Now she’s torn by loving a man who will be long dead by the time she is born.
For a moment, at the start, I wondering if this book would exceed my expectations but sadly, it did not. I wasn’t expecting Outlander mind you, but I did see a spark of reasonable characters and a decent plotline only to have that spark fizzle away under silliness. Maggie proclaimed her love for Quinn after one night of sex and at the time, Quinn chided her (and rightly so) that she can’t possibly love him after one night. Problem was, shortly after, he was also claiming to love her in return. This is nonsense. There was no character growth present in this book, from start to end, so it all became a flatline for me. I had no attachment to Maggie as a character and what little I did for Quinn wasn’t enough to enthrall me.
This book was a miss in my opinion and I don’t see myself in a hurry to read any further in the series.
October 6, 2012
Hmmm... Ok, it seems that there was more time allotted for Ian's rescue than the H/h's relationship. Also seemed rushed in that she's declaring her love for him within a few days of meeting him.
Editing issue: there was a scene where the H was in bed, the h laid down on top of the covers, a discussion ensued where the H got up and walked around. The h wraps her arms around him, paces some herself, then asks if he's wearing anything under there. Before he can answer, she runs her hands under the covers to see, then gets off the top of the covers and crawls in bed with him. What....? I read this page twice to see if I missed something. It's almost like the author had added the conversation into a scene but forgot to adjust the characters' placement.
Another thing - the H asks the h if she knew that the bad guy had raped a certain girl. She says she suspected but didn't know for sure. Considering that the bad guy had told her himself... (yeah; bad guy could have been lying but why bother since he didn't fear reprisal)
Editing issue: there was a scene where the H was in bed, the h laid down on top of the covers, a discussion ensued where the H got up and walked around. The h wraps her arms around him, paces some herself, then asks if he's wearing anything under there. Before he can answer, she runs her hands under the covers to see, then gets off the top of the covers and crawls in bed with him. What....? I read this page twice to see if I missed something. It's almost like the author had added the conversation into a scene but forgot to adjust the characters' placement.
Another thing - the H asks the h if she knew that the bad guy had raped a certain girl. She says she suspected but didn't know for sure. Considering that the bad guy had told her himself... (yeah; bad guy could have been lying but why bother since he didn't fear reprisal)
December 28, 2008
This was a surprise as I had such high expectations. This is a time travel book where the heroine goes back into the past. In several other books of this nature, it's done well, and the story is usually interesting enough to keep my interest.
This one...not so much.
There is a plot, but you have to really dig for it around all the illicit sex that went on. I'm not adverse to a steamy scene, but it seems there was more of that in this book than substance.
When all was said and done...the female character was a slobering whiner, which I can't abide any other day of the week...so this has to be on the disappointment list of books I've read this year.
This one...not so much.
There is a plot, but you have to really dig for it around all the illicit sex that went on. I'm not adverse to a steamy scene, but it seems there was more of that in this book than substance.
When all was said and done...the female character was a slobering whiner, which I can't abide any other day of the week...so this has to be on the disappointment list of books I've read this year.
October 11, 2008
Time travel. Okay, but too much inconsistancy, ends with American marrying time-traveling Scot in present day, is there no legal document necessary for this? Just one of many problems blipped over by author.
Also don't like stuffed animals for an adult woman, or having her described as "spunky." Plus, main character finishes her degree before taking on her two younger 11-yr-old sisters who are now 21. Character now gives her age as 23, so she graduated college & provided for her sisters at 13?
Also don't like stuffed animals for an adult woman, or having her described as "spunky." Plus, main character finishes her degree before taking on her two younger 11-yr-old sisters who are now 21. Character now gives her age as 23, so she graduated college & provided for her sisters at 13?
June 29, 2008
A wonderful story and can I be Maggie?? please..This is so much how I think and it read like I am going to be her when I go to Scotland. Everything she thought and believed in was like a book I have written of my own life to happen in the future. I thoroughly enjoyed this read and look forward to read more from this author. Oh where are you, my Highland warrior to sweep me from my feet and call me lass....
August 5, 2010
This is another book I really enjoyed. Quinn MacIntyre is a highway man who comes across and accidental time traveler, Maggie Graham. While the story has very obvious Outlander shades to it, I really liked the characters.
I do confess the ending wasn't my favorite, and I found a couple of things distracting or not well enough delved into, such as Quinn's journey mid-way through the book, though the characters are well crafted.
I do confess the ending wasn't my favorite, and I found a couple of things distracting or not well enough delved into, such as Quinn's journey mid-way through the book, though the characters are well crafted.
June 20, 2011
Sometimes you just need a light-hearted and fun fluffy romance (seems like I'm needing them more than not lately!). This certainly was what I needed after spending a grueling month in Spanish I and II and not fairing so well grade-wise. Who the heck needs to know how to speak Spanish when you can time travel time to the Scotlish Highlands; right? :-)
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November 1, 2008This is a time travel story about a woman on vacation in Scotland. She time travels to 1711 and meets a masked bandit called the Piper.
March 22, 2013
I just thought this book was ok.... The first couple of books on the series were better. This one was kind of hard to get into.
November 18, 2015
I loved HIGHLAND ROGUE. So much so that I have reread the series. I just hope that she writes more of these Scottish time travels.
April 8, 2016
A fun Scottish romance.
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