Wedding for a Knight

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Summary: ******"One To Watch" ********
Review: As I predicted in her first book, she is an author to watch out
for...she just keeps getting better with every book she writes.
This was such an engaging book and I can't understand anyone giving it less than a 5 star rating. You can feel her love of
Scotland with everything she writes. I don't usually go on and
on describing the book and all that happens as for me a review
is to let people know how you felt about the book...."AND I LOVED IT" I am waiting for Robbie's tale with baited breath.

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Summary: A very hard book to understand
Review: I did not like this book not one bit. The only reason why I finished it at all was because I left the book in the bathroom and only opened it when I was in there. The story line jumped to much for me and the whole thing was very frustrating to even read more than one chapter at a time. The only thing I liked about this book was the hero's friend and his cousin

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Summary: thrilling - Welfonder's best yet!
Review: I have read all of Welfonders books - but this one has so much heart! What a great storyteller, so accurate about Scotland, just a feel for the period and the Scots themselves, how the paranormal if often normal! Amicia MacLean and Magnus Mackinnon are such caring people, willing to reach past their pain and disappoints. Amicia, especially, touches your heart so, used to hurts and disappointments, yet it does not let that stop her.

Simply put, this is Welfonder at her best.




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Summary: Wedding For A Knight, And Beyond
Review: I just finished Wedding for A Knight, and loved it. The story of Amicia and Magnus brought out the true romantic in me. Their story is well intertwined with charcters previously written about by Ms Welfonder, and expertly so. The descriptive talent of this author makes the reader feel like they are walking through the lush hills and blooming heather of the Scottish Highlands. Just when you think you have it figured out she takes the reader on a journey of unsuspecting highs and soul searching lows. She makes you the reader aware of not only her great talent as a writer but her deep respect for her readers and their abilities to find the hidden message placed in all her books. Well worth the time to read it, and more worth the time to experience it. Great job Ms. Welfonder, you did it again!

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Summary: what a story to touch your heart
Review: I was amazed by Devil in a Kilt by this writer. I mean a first time book that was so strong, I anticipated the let down each of book following to be carbon copies. There are so many series out there following families and then just bore me to tears because each book is just like the last. I a delighted by this writer because this is NOT the case. None of her books are alike. Each has it own "feel", pace and purpose. I am especially impressed with this book because, while some situations are "been there before..." - it's what Welfonder does with her characters that stop you from saying "done that" to fine the quote. Her characters are clear, they emotions so touching.

Amicia MacLean has long loved Magnus Mackinnon, but knew her brothers would never permit the marriage. So when they came to her and said she had an offer from Magnus' father to wed her by proxy, she jumped at the chance. Magnus' father is in die need of money to save the Mackinnons, and Amicia's dowery will do that and more. Only when Amicia arrived at the Mackinnon stronghold as the new bride, it's to find Magnus wants no part of the marriage or her. The Mackinnon is a proud man. He knew of the Clans' deep need, but he intended to rebuilt it with the monies he had won. Instead, he is robbed while fighting for Scotland so he returns home penniless.

Magnus is not pleased with the marriage. It's not he dislikes Amicia. He has long loved and wanted her but felt her Clan would never accept his suit for her beings the two Clans were rivals. But intermarriage between the Mackinnons and Macleans have opened the door. But now, he feels he has no right to take her. He wanted to take her as a man who has something to offer, not a pauper.

Amicia is crushed by his rejections, but instead of pulling a well-deserved snit and getting angry, she is hurt, but she is determined. I like that. I really LIKED THAT. I get so tired of heroines running away from the man they want, spurning them just because they don't offer them hearts and flowers off the bat. Get real! When a woman wants a man, she goes after him - hunts that poor unsuspecting lad down and bags him before he knows what happened. WHY do so many romance writers MISS that? Amicia wants Magnus and she will let nothing stand in her way - not even a pesky Mackinnon ghost!

Applause for Welfonder giving us realistic, warm, human characters. Sheer Scottish perfection!

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Summary: Another Great Scottish Highland Read
Review: Lady Amicia MacLean was wary when her brothers informed her that they had arranged a marriage for her - that is until she learned whom the prospective bridegroom to be was. It was like a dream come true, even if it was to be a proxy wedding - the groom was none other than Magnus MacKinnon, the boy she'd fell in love with when she was only a child of twelve. At the time they'd met, they'd each been from rival clans, but Amicia held fast and kept the love she had for him alive in her heart for all the intervening years. Now, with Magnus finally coming home a returning hero, the rivalry has been put aside and Amicia was overjoyed.

Magnus MacKinnon had been away for many years competing in tourneys in an attempt to win enough to reinstate the MacKinnon's keep back to some semblance of it's former glory and to be able to win the hand of the Amicia MacLean, the young raven haired girl who'd stolen his heart years ago. Magnus MacKinnon, bone weary both in body and mind, was coming home, but penniless now that his hard earned winnings had been stolen while he battled the English at the battle of Dupplin Moor. The last thing he needed was discovering that he now had a `bride' waiting for him whose generous dowry was already being used, Magnus' pride and honor had just taken another hit! Oh, he wanted her alright but he wanted to be the one to rebuild the clan's fortune, not from the coin received from his bride.

Discovering that Magnus was ready to have the marriage annulled and have Amicia sent back, she dug in her heels - Amica was not about to give up after coming so close to having her dreams realized. She'd do whatever was necessary to tempt the stubborn Highlander into consummating their union. With time running out, and an evil force lurking in the shadows wanting to wipe all traces of the once mighty MacKinnon clan off the face of the earth, would Amicia ever see the happily ever after she'd been waiting all her life for?

Sue-Ellen Welfonder, whose love of Medieval Scotland is so great one wonders if she isn't a reincarnation of one of the loving souls she creates in her stories. She maintains the magic and mystery that devoted fans have come to expect from her meticulously researched and highly entertaining Highland reads. In WEDDING FOR A KNIGHT she has injected originality, excitement, and a glimmer of the mystical along with a deeply satisfying love match. Amicia is a superb heroine - one who knows her own mind and was not about to be cast aside. The other truly enjoyable thing about both protagonists was that she was not the perfectly svelte glorious looking typical heroine, rather one with a `real' body - flaws and all - and that our hero thought of her as perfection! Bottom Line - The latest entry in her MacLean series is a stand-alone original `stand-out' of a Highland gem! --- Marilyn Rondeau for www.historicalromancewriters.com ---


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Summary: My Favorite Author !
Review: Like all of Sue-Ellen's books, Wedding for a Knight has been carefully researched! It contains an amazing amount of detail of the views of the Scottish people and the way they lived during this time period. Sue-Ellen is one of the few authors that I have found willing to include historic details in each and every romance novel she writes.

Sue-Ellen is incomparable when it comes to dialogue. I just love Amica, she is so loving, patient and caring. Then you have Magnus a strong, stubborn, adorable man. Their conversations are sure to bring a smile to your face. They are both so darn cute! Did I mention Magnus stubbornness?

As always I will be the first in line to buy my favorite author next book! Sue-Ellen you're the Best. I love you.



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Summary: a marvelous book from a talented writer
Review: My wife vets my books. She feels I need to read romance now and again. And she is right <but don't tell her that!>. I have found some very talented writers in the field of romance, some of the best writers around in any genre. Sue-Ellen Welfonder is one of the best writers of Scottish Historicals. I should know. I am one-half Scot and I was a history teacher! So add that in with the fact I am male, that makes me one tough critic for Scottish Historical Romance sagas. Frankly, I find too many faults in most American writers to enjoy their works. They have seen Braveheart and THINK they can write a book about Scotland. It is immediately apparent Ms. Welfonder KNOWS Scotland. She has obviously walked the peaty earth, smelled the heather. It shows in her writing.

What impressed me most? The non-stereotypical actions of her heroine. I adored it. So many books of this type bore me, because I know precisely how the woman will react. Is there some set outline for romance writers? One would think so. Ms. Welfonder drums to her own Bodhran. The book was fast pace, humourous in places, a delight, especially to read someone writing about Scotland that really knows it.

There is an old Scottish Proverb when translated that says you ken a cat by it's scracth. Well, Ms. Welfonder's scratches bleed tartan.

A wonderful book!

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Summary: a beautiful story
Review: One of the most enjoyable books I have read all year. I really loved the heroine, so stole my heart. It was a wondeful Welfonder book. I cannot want for her next one. She just gets better and better.

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Summary: a heart-warming story
Review: This is another in Sue-Ellen Welfonder's series of two rival Clans in Medieval Scotland. Though rivals, and that animosity pushed to a boiling head because of the deals of one of women from clan and suspicion falling onto the other, their women and men keep finding each other and keep having to find common ground when romance demands it.

I have enjoyed all of this writers books, but I really think this is her best. I love the heroine. She was so funny, so poignant, so loving!

Just a heart-warming tales! Come them coming Ms. Welfonder!