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Highland Heartbeats #2
A Rebel's Desire
Some secrets are hard to keep…
Jake promised Heather MacDonald he’d keep her secret. He’d help her train to be a warrior and all she had to do was give him a kiss. He didn’t promise that she wouldn’t feel the stirrings of desire for this former soldier.
For Heather, a woman determined to become a warrior, Jake’s promise means the difference between life and death.
Wounded at war, then the target of a malicious healer, Jake Duncan, brother of the Highland Laird, has decided he has to prove himself, over and over again. He never thought that part of his journey would involve falling for the woman from the Lowlands who wasn’t as demure or as shy as he originally thought, especially not when she was wielding a dirk.
Jake promised Heather MacDonald he’d keep her secret. He’d help her train to be a warrior and all she had to do was give him a kiss. He didn’t promise that she wouldn’t feel the stirrings of desire for this former soldier.
For Heather, a woman determined to become a warrior, Jake’s promise means the difference between life and death.
Wounded at war, then the target of a malicious healer, Jake Duncan, brother of the Highland Laird, has decided he has to prove himself, over and over again. He never thought that part of his journey would involve falling for the woman from the Lowlands who wasn’t as demure or as shy as he originally thought, especially not when she was wielding a dirk.
332 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 13, 2017
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April 18, 2021
This is book two of the Highland Heartbeat.
Book one about Sarah and Philip , This is about their siblings Heather and Jake. Both books were a good read, This kept me reading into the early hours, to see if they both survived the evil Ceana. Who has been trying to kill Jake since book one.
Book one about Sarah and Philip , This is about their siblings Heather and Jake. Both books were a good read, This kept me reading into the early hours, to see if they both survived the evil Ceana. Who has been trying to kill Jake since book one.
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Blurb:
Some secrets are hard to keep…
Jake promised Heather MacDonald he’d keep her secret. He’d help her train to be a warrior and all she had to do was give him a kiss. He didn’t promise that she wouldn’t feel the stirrings of desire for this former soldier.
For Heather, a woman determined to become a warrior, Jake’s promise means the difference between life and death.
Wounded at war, then the target of a malicious healer, Jake Duncan, brother of the Highland Laird, has decided he has to prove himself, over and over again. He never thought that part of his journey would involve falling for the woman from the Lowlands who wasn’t as demure or as shy as he originally thought, especially not when she was wielding a dirk.
Blurb:
Some secrets are hard to keep…
Jake promised Heather MacDonald he’d keep her secret. He’d help her train to be a warrior and all she had to do was give him a kiss. He didn’t promise that she wouldn’t feel the stirrings of desire for this former soldier.
For Heather, a woman determined to become a warrior, Jake’s promise means the difference between life and death.
Wounded at war, then the target of a malicious healer, Jake Duncan, brother of the Highland Laird, has decided he has to prove himself, over and over again. He never thought that part of his journey would involve falling for the woman from the Lowlands who wasn’t as demure or as shy as he originally thought, especially not when she was wielding a dirk.
July 12, 2021
The frustration, the utter
contempt
I felt toward this book is too much to put into words...but I'll try anyways. I just- I can't describe how angry this made me feel (although I'm sure my hormones may have helped towards that). This just had so many issues, where do I even start?
Let's talk about Heather. I liked her...well, I liked the concept of her. I totally loved her ambitions and her motivation behind it. She wanted to become a warrior, to become independent. I really respected that she wanted to get revenge for her fathers death and to also shine outside of her sisters shadow. The problem however? None of this happened. Her character was so incredibly frustrating, she could never do anything right and just second guessed everything that ever happened. This isn't a bad trait to see in a character, it can be done well, but in this case it just always felt so pathetic, and I know I've been using this word a lot, but frustrating. And then, once she finally did something right, instead of it getting the treatment it should have deserved, it was kinda like "so much else is happening, this is just dumb". idk, I'm having a hard time getting my thoughts together. I just think there was so much potential for this character.
I wont even bother talking about any of the other characters, I disliked them all. What I do want to talk about, however, is the romance aspect of this. Love saved the day! Can you believe it?! I fucking can't, I hate it all. Most of the time these characters spent together was off screen, when they were together it was usually just Jake saving Heather's ass which I hated. There was literally nothing to suggest that these two should be in love.
I really don't get the point of this book. Heather never reached her goals, Jake and Phillip both just said that she has a warriors heart, and that was the end of that. The book ends with them saying "love u boo lets get hitched" so ultimately, this book was pointless.
There are so many things I could complain about but 1. im just so tired and done with this book, it's drained me of my life force and 2. its hard to put into words everything that i hated because there's so, so much.
Let's talk about Heather. I liked her...well, I liked the concept of her. I totally loved her ambitions and her motivation behind it. She wanted to become a warrior, to become independent. I really respected that she wanted to get revenge for her fathers death and to also shine outside of her sisters shadow. The problem however? None of this happened. Her character was so incredibly frustrating, she could never do anything right and just second guessed everything that ever happened. This isn't a bad trait to see in a character, it can be done well, but in this case it just always felt so pathetic, and I know I've been using this word a lot, but frustrating. And then, once she finally did something right, instead of it getting the treatment it should have deserved, it was kinda like "so much else is happening, this is just dumb". idk, I'm having a hard time getting my thoughts together. I just think there was so much potential for this character.
I wont even bother talking about any of the other characters, I disliked them all. What I do want to talk about, however, is the romance aspect of this. Love saved the day! Can you believe it?! I fucking can't, I hate it all. Most of the time these characters spent together was off screen, when they were together it was usually just Jake saving Heather's ass which I hated. There was literally nothing to suggest that these two should be in love.
I really don't get the point of this book. Heather never reached her goals, Jake and Phillip both just said that she has a warriors heart, and that was the end of that. The book ends with them saying "love u boo lets get hitched" so ultimately, this book was pointless.
There are so many things I could complain about but 1. im just so tired and done with this book, it's drained me of my life force and 2. its hard to put into words everything that i hated because there's so, so much.
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February 17, 2018
A Rebel's Desire (Highland Heartbeats Book 2)
The love story of Heather and Jake. It's been a year since Heather and Sarah has escape from their step father. Sarah had marry Philip and life is great also. Heather want to be a warrior, with the help of one of the village lad she has learn how to use the bow. Now Jake has found out about her lessen. Will he help her or tell on her or fall in love with her? Great story.
The love story of Heather and Jake. It's been a year since Heather and Sarah has escape from their step father. Sarah had marry Philip and life is great also. Heather want to be a warrior, with the help of one of the village lad she has learn how to use the bow. Now Jake has found out about her lessen. Will he help her or tell on her or fall in love with her? Great story.
April 27, 2018
I think this was a cute clean little story. I was furious and frustrated at how Heather was constantly treated like a child. Even at the last Sarah was telling her what to do. That got really old really quickly. Also, the end felt rushed. Jake was so worried about his leg and her viewing him as a cripple and yet I didn't feel like that got resolved? Overall, a cute idea that just didn't get fleshed out very well.
September 26, 2019
Characters are likeable but they are not enough to get past the glaring historical inaccuracies. All the auther needed to do was spend 5 mins on the computer. I am by no means a historian, can't remember dates to save my life, but this was pretty obvious. One of the female characters wants to learn how to fight so she can avenge her father's death from the vikings that invaded Scotland. On the next page she makes note that sword fighting in the Scottish Highlands is very much different from fencing. Both of these are separated historically by about 2 centuries. Never mind how a young girl raised in a remote Scottish village comes to know about fencing which was developed in Europe.
March 9, 2021
When I first started reading this story, my thoughts were, how dumb is this girl, she wants to be a warrior and find norsemen, obviously knows nothing of the world. Do I really want to read this story? Is it going to be as bad as the last one or worse. But I couldn’t decide what else to read, so I read on and then it got to a part where I had to keep reading, the hero was saving the girls life, my battery on my iPad was getting low and I didn’t want to leave them hanging on the side of the cliff! I had to plug in and keep reading! There was no other choice! Omg it was nail biting, had to keep reading until the end :-)
July 11, 2018
Story ok
I enjoyed the story but being Scottish I was most disappointed of the lack of research that the author had not made. For example the Grampions are not a mountain range but hills that run through the counties of Angus and Aberdeenshire. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the U.K. And the mountain range it shadows is the Cairn Gorams. If the author wants to set her story in a country other than her own please get your facts right. A 10 year-old Scottish child could have given you this information
I enjoyed the story but being Scottish I was most disappointed of the lack of research that the author had not made. For example the Grampions are not a mountain range but hills that run through the counties of Angus and Aberdeenshire. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the U.K. And the mountain range it shadows is the Cairn Gorams. If the author wants to set her story in a country other than her own please get your facts right. A 10 year-old Scottish child could have given you this information
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February 27, 2021I‘m reading this as a part of an ebook boxset. The story of Sarah‘s sister Heather, now rescued from their wicked and abusive stepfather and safe with the Highlanders. She strives to find her place and purpose in life and thinks perhaps training as a warrior could be the path for her. Although a good read the bits where Jake was gritting his teeth against the pain of his injuries and vowing to take revenge against Ceana, the previous healer who tried to kill him, ended up being annoyingly repetitive. Likewise Heather berating herself for her folly... Not bad though.
October 3, 2019
Okay so you can't wrap up a story properly
The villain from the first book is the villain in this one. And guess what she's probably the villain the third. Unlike Voldermort she doesn't come back stronger or win any battles she just skin is away to fight another day. Heather is a complete and utter featherhead who has no heart of a warrior at all. She's impulsive and dumb. Jake is okay but needs a woman his equal not the dumb kid he got stuck with.
The villain from the first book is the villain in this one. And guess what she's probably the villain the third. Unlike Voldermort she doesn't come back stronger or win any battles she just skin is away to fight another day. Heather is a complete and utter featherhead who has no heart of a warrior at all. She's impulsive and dumb. Jake is okay but needs a woman his equal not the dumb kid he got stuck with.
January 17, 2018
Worth reading
I liked this book as well as book one. There is some mistakes throughout that are not easy to over look, but nothing that would gave me not finishing the book. Characters are likable. My biggest issue is that although the story is complete, it kind of just ends. I'm going to start book three now.
I liked this book as well as book one. There is some mistakes throughout that are not easy to over look, but nothing that would gave me not finishing the book. Characters are likable. My biggest issue is that although the story is complete, it kind of just ends. I'm going to start book three now.
May 15, 2018
Highlanders they are handsome
Safah and Heather led a troubled life by an alcoholic step father. Sarah was kidnapped by the Duncan clan to heal the lairds brother. Heather soon came to live at the manor. She wanted to become a warrior to revenge her father's death. Soon to find to be warrior at heart was just as good. But mostly falling in love was good too
Safah and Heather led a troubled life by an alcoholic step father. Sarah was kidnapped by the Duncan clan to heal the lairds brother. Heather soon came to live at the manor. She wanted to become a warrior to revenge her father's death. Soon to find to be warrior at heart was just as good. But mostly falling in love was good too
October 2, 2018
The second book in the Highland Heartbeats series and I enjoyed this one as well. Jake and Heather's story is a good solid one and I loved how feisty she is, wanting to train as a warrior. What I also like about a series like this one, it's fun to see characters from the previous books mentioned and learn how their lives are progressing as well.
March 8, 2021
Heather had her own reasons to want to learn how to use weapons. So, bribing a local lad to pass on his knowledge, meeting late at night to practice undetected.
That was until Jake started to become suspicious of her nocturnal wanderings.
This is where there friendship started, but a life and death ordeal is where they learned their true feelings for each other.
That was until Jake started to become suspicious of her nocturnal wanderings.
This is where there friendship started, but a life and death ordeal is where they learned their true feelings for each other.
April 23, 2021
Highland romance
A fun Scottish romance that will leave you believing in romance. Jake and Heater are wonderful together, they have both gone through a lot and as the younger siblings of two beloved leaders they both feel they have a lot to prove to themselves. I loved how they developed both individually and together in this.
A fun Scottish romance that will leave you believing in romance. Jake and Heater are wonderful together, they have both gone through a lot and as the younger siblings of two beloved leaders they both feel they have a lot to prove to themselves. I loved how they developed both individually and together in this.
April 8, 2025
Repetitive
Painfully slow, detailed, repetitive, so much internal dialogue, poor me, secretive, doing stupid actions with no regard for your own safety. I prefer strong smart women.
The beginning of the book showed promise, but after halfway through and then it fell apart for me.
Painfully slow, detailed, repetitive, so much internal dialogue, poor me, secretive, doing stupid actions with no regard for your own safety. I prefer strong smart women.
The beginning of the book showed promise, but after halfway through and then it fell apart for me.
May 11, 2017
Just can't! !!!
I loved the first book but this female character doed such stupid things that 7 gave up at the half wsy mark. I just can't finish not enough action, romance or reason.
I loved the first book but this female character doed such stupid things that 7 gave up at the half wsy mark. I just can't finish not enough action, romance or reason.
April 25, 2018
Is this for YA readers? So immature and spoiled, I had no patience for Heather. The "exciting" scenes went on interminably and the rest was just her pouting or sneaking off. Blarg. Why would anyone consider her old enough to marry?
May 2, 2018
Scottish romance
The laws of the Scots are theirs alone. A healer who poisons and another who tries to reverse the damage after being kidnapped to that purpose. Who expected her to call in love and Maddy her captor?
The laws of the Scots are theirs alone. A healer who poisons and another who tries to reverse the damage after being kidnapped to that purpose. Who expected her to call in love and Maddy her captor?
July 20, 2018
Wonderful story
First time reading this author's work and I really enjoyed the story! Good plot and interesting characters, I'm looking forward to the next book in this series and may go back for the beginning book. Great reading!
First time reading this author's work and I really enjoyed the story! Good plot and interesting characters, I'm looking forward to the next book in this series and may go back for the beginning book. Great reading!
April 12, 2021
Life struggles are hard to overcome
Finding yourself is probably the most difficult struggles you will experience in life. Wrong decisions can lead to a rash of bad events. Overcoming those , well it doesn't always go as you hoped.
Finding yourself is probably the most difficult struggles you will experience in life. Wrong decisions can lead to a rash of bad events. Overcoming those , well it doesn't always go as you hoped.
September 11, 2025
Okay read but not great.
I didn't really like Heather. Jake was a likeable guy. Their story was okay but not one that you just didn't want to put down.
Sarah and Phillips story was more entertaining.
This is my honest review.
I didn't really like Heather. Jake was a likeable guy. Their story was okay but not one that you just didn't want to put down.
Sarah and Phillips story was more entertaining.
This is my honest review.
December 12, 2017
Not quite as good as the first one. Heather just wasn't as a believable character as her sister, Sarah, was in the first book.
February 7, 2018
Excellent
I wonderful story purely exciting from start to finish, will read the entire series, can't wait to read book three
I wonderful story purely exciting from start to finish, will read the entire series, can't wait to read book three
April 16, 2018
Delightful
Enjoyed this book. Authors description are wonderful. Keeps the pages turning and me on the edge of my seat. Next book please.
Enjoyed this book. Authors description are wonderful. Keeps the pages turning and me on the edge of my seat. Next book please.
April 29, 2018
Tedious... too much reviewing the previous book. DNF.
July 4, 2018
Good read and can't wait for the next book!
August 26, 2018
No complaints about it, fantastic line of story. Could not put it down.
September 14, 2018
Awesome book
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October 2, 2018
Better than book 1. Jake took a few licks but he kept coming.
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