A Thief in a Kilt - Softcover

Blair, Sandy

3.92

383 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821779966 ISBN 13: 9780821779965

Publisher: Zebra Books, 2006

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Notorious rogue Sir Ian MacKay is honorbound to return Scotland's rightful king to his ancestral throne while trying to discover the true identity of Kate Templeton, a mysterious beauty who has bewitched the court and who has refused his amorous advances. Original.

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From Publishers Weekly:

This lighthearted historical romance, the third in a series (after 2004's A Rogue in a Kilt), takes on loyalty, love and lies in 15th-century Scotland. Kate Templeton, an unmarried London tutor blessed (or is it cursed?) with the gift of foresight, is masquerading as the widow of a Scottish lord to gain information on her imprisoned friend, King James I of Scotland. Incarcerated in the Tower of London for the past five years, James seems to have been abandoned by his people. Kate, his loyal tutor, has decided on her own to travel to Stirling Castle in Scotland and determine why the Scots have ignored the crown's ransom demands, and who among the court James can count on to help him. Kate has been warned to stay away from Scotland's "Thief of Hearts," Ian MacKay, but his heart-stopping good looks make that hard to do. Ian works as the eyes and ears of the regent Albany, an ass of a man and an enemy of James, but what Kate doesn't know is that Ian is secretly working to restore James to the throne. As Ian and Kate begin to uncover their shared agenda, duplicity and dilemma drive them apart. Though the abundance of Scottish dialect can distract, Blair's attention to historical and regional detail supports a fine balance of action and romance, making this political potboiler a winning read. (Nov.)
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From Booklist:

Kate is on a mission to find out why the Scots refuse to ransom James I, who has been imprisoned by the English in the Tower of London. Pretending to be the widow of Sir Gregory Campbell's youngest son, Kate arrives in Scotland only to find her work threatened by Ian MacKay. As an agent for Robert, the Duke of Albany, Ian is doing his best to keep the Scottish border lords and lairds from taking up arms against the English, but Ian's job becomes much more difficult once he discovers the lovely and stubborn Kate's real reason for being in Scotland. Ian is determined to seduce the truth out of Kate, but much to his surprise, Kate seems to be surprisingly immune to his charms. Blair continues her loosely connected series of Scottish historical romances with another fabulously fun and splendidly sexy tale. John Charles
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