The Ravished Bride

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Summary: Well-paced with believable, engaging characters.
Review: Spoiled and haughty, Margaret Drummond is a spirited, resourceful beauty who is frustrated by her parents' bestowal of her hand on whichever man can best serve the family's current political agenda. Sent from her Scottish home while still a child to become the bride of the Dauphin in the court of France and widowed at nineteen, Margaret is determined to escape her betrothal to the lecherous King of England, but she is even more desperate to escape Jamie MacDonel, her family's mortal enemy who kidnaps her to further his own plans. Yet her return to Scotland heralds the beginning of more trouble than the misery of one girl, princess or no, and Margaret soon realizes that she must choose between the fate of her country and her search for the freedom and the home that have been denied her.