Master of the Highlands (A Highlands Novel)

by Veronica Wolff

Book Overview

Travel back to seventeenth century Scotland with the first romance in the Highlands series, as a modern woman finds true love across the ocean--and across time. Lily Hamlin has finally realized that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425218996
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.7" x 0.8" x 4.1"

Customer Reviews

Mystery mazes and battles

Lily Hamlin gets sent back through time through a mysterious maze she has stumbled upon in Scotland while looking for an ideal spot to paint. Lily is in Scotland in the first place because her grandmother who she was extremely close to haled from there. She wants to find her place again in the world. What Lily finds is a strange man who speaks a ton of Latin phrases, Robert, and an extremely handsome man named Ewen, Lociel of Clan Cameron. Robert too had come from the same maze, but he was from an earlier time that Lily, he is also the foster brother of Ewen. Ewen is a widow and also has a rumbuctious son named John. He places Lily as John's governess, because she has to have a job to help the clan. At first Lily is hestiant towards John, but then she realizes he just needs some motherly attention. While this is all going on the Camerons get a vistor named Rowena MacPherson,who is the very meaning of trouble. She wants Ewen for herself and will do anything to get him. Lily at first desperately wants to go home, then she isnt that sure. She tries to content herself with being in 1654.Can she carve a life for herself with the Camerons? Will she find love with Ewen? I read Wolff's Sword of the Highlands first and happen to like that one better but Master of the Highlands is just as good. I truly like how Wolff writes books about real men in history. It makes the book so much better.Master of the Highlands is a great adventure full of romance.

Fantastic Scottish time travel!

This is one of the best Scottish time-travels or historicals I've read in a long while. I loved the whole concept of modern day Lily getting lost in a maze and traveling back in time to the 17th century Scottish Highlands. Ewen is a wonderful example of a Highland chief who leads his people with strength and intelligence. I fell in love with him. The secondary characters are also fantastic, including Ewen's son as well as his stepbrother, Robert. This story was a wonderful adventure!

Sigh...

I got so caught up in Ewen and Lily's story I didn't want it to end. What a great pair! I loved how they connected. And their supporting cast of characters were so vivid and well-drawn I felt like I was getting reacquainted with old friends. The heroine, Lily, is strong but lonely. Unsure of her place in the world, she's looking for meaning after having her life fall apart with the dot-com implosion. Ewen is what a laird should be--sword-wieldingly tough and intelligent. But he's sensitive too, making him the perfect kind of hero, especially for Lily. And he wears a kilt--what more is there to say? I absolutely LOVED Robert's storyline too. I'd describe it some more but I don't want to give it away. ;)

Lily Hamlin rocks!!!

Lily, a beautiful, gutsy, audacious, modern woman finds herself in 17th century Scotland. Battles, bad guys, and the perfect hunk of a Scotsman, Ewen, lead her on one adventure after another. Lily lives up to the challange. She rocks! A great, fun book full of history and romance.