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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 3 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | To win the woman destined to be his bride . . . Catherine Depford is the wealthiest heiress in London, and she is all but promised to a proper English lord . . . so why is she having dreams of a Scottish warrior claiming her for his own? She can't imagine that her heated fantasies would come true . . . until she locks eyes with the stranger of her dreams in a crowded ballroom. A Scotsman will do anything Highland chief Gabriel MacBraedon has come to London in search of Catherine, the woman an ancient curse dictates to be his bride. But he can't very well sweep the English beauty into his arms and carry her off to Scotland in the dead of night. Or can he? Nothing is impossible when a Scotsman's passion is making the rules . . . | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Debra Mullins | | Mass Market Paperback: | 384 pages | | Publisher: | Avon | | Publication Date: | January 29, 2008 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0060799315 | | Product Length: | 6.84 inches | | Product Width: | 4.2 inches | | Product Height: | 1.06 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.41 pounds | | Package Length: | 6.7 inches | | Package Width: | 4.2 inches | | Package Height: | 1.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.7 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 16 reviews |
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6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Good start...but ultimately disappointing Feb 07, 2008
By statengirl
A centuries old Scottish curse decrees that the maiden of the Farlan clan who bears a dagger-shaped birthmark must marry the chief of the MacBraedon clan by her eighteenth birthday...or she will succumb to madness. Famine and hardship will then be visited upon the clans until the curse is satisfied. Catherine (Farlan) Depford bears such a birthmark. Her Scottish mother ignored the curse and married a wealthy English merchant - Catherine's father - and thereafter she went mad and eventually leapt to her death when Catherine was a small child. Catherine has never been to Scotland and knows almost nothing about the curse. But since turning eighteen a week ago, she hears Scottish voices, dreams of being in Scotland, and has erotic dreams about a virile Scotsman whom she has never met. Catherine fears she is going mad like her mother. She wants to hurry and marry the kindly lord who is pursuing her, so that she will be cared for in her decline. She attends a party where she hopes to see him, but instead encounters Gabriel MacBraedon, a Scottish earl and chief of the MacBraedon clan. Astonishingly, he is the man from her dreams. He tells her - in no uncertain terms - that he has come for her, and that she will become his wife. But Catherine is not so sure...
I liked this author's previous book, "Two Weeks with a Stranger," and was fully expecting to enjoy this one - it got off to a great start and the couple seemed to have genuine sparks between them. But the sparks petered out, the story slowed in the middle (too many tangents that went nowhere), and the heroine proved rather thickheaded. She stubbornly ignored or had no normal curiosity about some very obvious things pointing her towards Gabriel, such as the voices in her head that stopped whenever he was near and her dreams of him before they even met. And Catherine's attempt to trick the kind-hearted lord into marrying her before her madness took hold was extremely heartless. There were several things that detracted from the romance. There was an old flame of Gabriel's who was still living at his castle and still loved him...and for whom Gabriel still had feelings. Talk about awkward! Also Catherine, a virgin, allowed Gabriel sexual intimacies and then seemed indifferent to marrying him. This just did not ring true for me. Ms. Mullins is a good writer with a comfortable style...I simply had a lot of problems with the story.
6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
NOT AS GOOD AS I EXPECTED Feb 06, 2008
By Babs
"ADDICTED TO ROMANCE"
I have read most of Debra Mullins books. Both characters, in this book, did not have much spark throughout the entire story. The story revolved around an ancient curse that was boring and made both characters act juvenile and childish.
The highland chief Gabriel's character was viewed, by me, as being dumb and unrealistic. The heiress Catherine's character was not much better.
The book missed its mark with me because not much romance was involved and all these two did was argue the entire book. Both characters did nothing interesting with each other or for each other.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Average Scottish historical romance May 26, 2008
By Helen Hancox
"Auntie Helen"
Catherine Depford is a wealthy heiress looking to marry but disturbed by some strange events. She's started hearing voices and dreaming of a Scottish man - all rather alarming when her mother went mad and eventually jumped to her death. When Catherine actually meets the man who has been in her dreams she discovers that he is courting her because she is apparently the key to mitigating a curse on his lands - where the highland chief must marry a woman from a specific family who bears a particular mark on her body. Catherine is identified as the 'Bride' of Gabriel MacBraedon's generation, only she's not instantly willing to leave England and travel to Scotland.
Gabriel has to try to persuade Catherine that the curse is real whilst Catherine's father tries to arrange a marriage for her. As signs of Catherine's possible madness stack up, events get more serious. When Catherine finds herself in Scotland with MacBraedon she realises that she might not be his choice, if it weren't for the curse, and has to decide whether she can give herself to a marriage without love to save people she barely knows.
This book was rather a disappointment. The overall plot was pretty thin with very little happening right up until the last 20-odd pages where events moved thick and fast. Neither Catherine nor Gabriel were well drawn characters with the overwhelming impression Catherine left being that of petulance and selfishness. Gabriel was a cipher of a Scottish warlord and the other characters were equally typical for this sort of book. I didn't find the scenes between Catherine and Gabriel romantic and some of the plot devices, such as her father's behaviour, seemed both unlikely and then magically convenient. This was a fairly mediocre book without anything special to recommend it, the plot device of the curse being one I have come across many times before.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Interesting plotline... Apr 13, 2008
By Miss Cait
"Cait"
I bought this book along with another (Julianne MacLean's "In My Wildest Fantasies") and couldn't decide which to read first, so I had a friend look at the amazon.com descriptions of each one and tell me which he thought sounded most interesting and he picked this one...that was about 10:00 and I didn't put the book down til I finished it at 4 am! Debra Mullins is very hit-or-miss for me; I loved "Three Nights..." and "Two Weeks With a Stranger" but couldn't get into "Just One Touch" to save my life.
Though it took me some time to really get accustomed to the odd storyline (a centuries old curse dictating that the two characters, Catherine and Gabriel, must marry or she will go mad and his clan and it's lands will suffer desolation and poverty), I enjoyed the book quite a bit-though I might say that I liked the men from Gabriel's clan almost more than I did him-I would LOVE to read Brodie and Maire's story, and would also love to see a continuation about his younger brother, etc.
Two things bothered me, though-the first is Catherine's unwillingness to accept the idea of the curse and marry Gabriel to save his clan. Unbelievable though a curse would be to accept, she is almost beaten over the head with evidence that it exists and still denies it. She admits to herself that she could just marry Gabriel anyways, that she may as well, even if there is no curse...but then still, when asked point-blank when the wedding day is, acts as if she still isn't sure and is leaning against doing so. And then after all her protestations, she gives in almost immediately, seemingly just because she feels as though she has betrayed the hospitality and good will of the clan.
The second thing that really bothered me was the ending. Catherine's father has been against her marrying "that Scot" for the WHOLE book-even rejected him at gunpoint when he asked for Catherine's hand. It was therefore understandable for him to try to kidnap her after finding that she had already married Gabriel. But he gave up SO easily when chased after, rather in an abrupt "I've seen the light" manner. And the conflict with Jean-though I didn't want it to be drawn out or anything, it frustrated me that after as much rancor as Jean had against Catherine, she gave in so easily. Basically, the end of the book seemed like what happens a lot, I think-the author spent a lot of time developing the story line and building things up and then they get to the end and either run out of time or run out of energy, because it just seems rushed. We have the climax where the curse is broken and then it feels as though the author is racing to finish the book, and we lose out on a sense of closure.
All in all, a good read, but I dunno that I'll put it on my "keeper" shelf.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
eh... Feb 29, 2008
By BostonJen
"jensch"
This started out fantastically. Maybe goofy to some, but I enjoyed the concept of a "curse" bringing 2 people together who don't want to be together, but are still wildly attracted... somewhere in the middle it just crashed, and I was very disappointed. I still am, in fact. The characters changed, and our heroine became an idiot. Certainly not the worst book I've read, or even a waste of time, it just wasn't as good as it could have been. You'll probably like it if the concept sounds good to you, but I'm sorry to say you may not LOVE it by the last pages.
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