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For me, this revelation is the beauty of Vines’s story and the reason that it sits currently as my favorite of this series. Danger lurks when Richard appears and two accidents lead to one persons death and one person seriously injured. Ella's ready to move on to university and claim as much freedom as possible, but the only way she can get out from under her abusive uncle's guardianship before she's thirty is if she gets married.
The writing is good, although the pace did lag a bit in the middle, but with an adrenaline-rush climax and joyful ending. The third standalone instalment in the Marry the Scot contemporary romance series takes you away to big love in the Scottish Highlands. I cannot finds the proper words to express my appreciation for real characters with flaws that are REAL. He attempts to keep his distance because not only is she too young, but she's his best friend's sister. What we do get is a friendship that sees both Gordain and Ella building each other up, playing hero (and heroine) when necessary, all while realizing that falling in love cannot, and should not, be avoided.But it wasn’t my uncle; it came from a distance, like a window had been broken at the front of the house.
I probably did a disservice to the series by starting with this one but I can’t say that I regret the decision. Hero begins with a closer look into a scene from the previous book, Love Most, Say Least, where Ella and Gordain meet for the first time when he comes to her rescue. I’d held on to it as a grieving child, bested it as a rebellious fourteen-year-old, and played the heck out of it as a young woman.When Gordain McRae rescues Ella Fitzroy from her uncle's clutches he is doing his best friend, James -her brother - a favor.