Beloved Lord

Beloved #3

by Mallory Burgess

As the tyrannical English King Edward turns her beloved country into a place of terror and oppression, Anne Faurer is forced from her ancestral home and into servitude on her own lands. She knows little of the new laird of Langlannoch—only that he is English, and therefore her hated enemy. Nothing could force her to set foot in the home that was once hers...except the pitiful cries of a newborn babe. The laird's son, abandoned by his mother, needs the love and care she couldn't give to her own poor stillborn child.

Bayard Berkeley knows nothing of Anne's true identity—only that he desires this ebony-haired beauty. He sees passion in her eyes, but also turmoil...and fear. He knows nothing of the dangers she will brave to free her brother from a London prison, or her reckless commitment to reclaiming her homeland. But as Scotland rises from the ashes of defeat and dark treachery awaits them both, a love—magnificent and enduring—will bring a legacy of pride, passion, and destiny full circle at last.

Genres: Romance, Historical, Historical Romance

507 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

Pseudonyms: Mary Sandra Hingston, Sandy Hingston and Catherine FitzGerald

Reviews

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first romance novel I read when I was in 10th grade. My friend Megan let me borrow it and I've been hooked on romances ever since. It's an old, book, but if you love historical romances I recommend you pick it up.

[Jeannie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this many years ago and have now read it again. Forgot how good a story it was. I enjoyed the inter-weaving of characters from the first two books in the arc and am happy to see how little Anne grew up.

[Shel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this was a very sweet story. I usually like the alpha hero, but absolutely loved the hero and the heroine in Beloved Lord. What a good story it was, and especially at 500 pages.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

The whole series is amazing.

[Shellie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Boring...

[Mary23nm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beloved Lord follows 16 year old Anne Faurer, younger sister of the hero in Beloved Honor. She has been kicked out of her family's home in Scotland, since it is under English rule. Her home has been given to an English barrister, with a newborn son and a nasty wife who just left him on the day of his son's birth. Anne recently gave birth to a stillborn child and is called in to be a nursemaid.
Mallory Burgess doesn't seem to ever make it easy for her heroes and heroines, from what I've seen and this book is no exception. The hero and heroine go through some rough times and finally get together at the end of the book. This is the first book I have read however, that they are not married for their HEA. They are happy to be together at the end and hope they can marry someday, which left me a little frustrated. (No one wants bad to triumph over good!) No epilogue either.

I was really disappointed that Anne's mother, Madeline (from Beloved Knight and Beloved Honor), did not get together with Bay's older best friend Reggie, who has had a crush on her for forty years. 4/5 stars

[Paula · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this was well written, and kept me turning the pages.

Bay is an English Lord living in Scotland. His wife Phillipa delivers him a son. He is thrilled but as he goes to see her in her chambers, she is packed up and ready to leave him. She takes her servants and goes back to England. Now Bay is in a quandry as to how to feed his son.

Sharon the kitchen maid goes to a croft where she finds a young girl Anne, after she has buried her stillborn child. She enlists the her help to be nursemaid to Bay's son. What Bay doesn't know is that the house he lives in is actually Anne's house which the English King gave to Bay and threw her family out.