The Dark Highlander

Title: The Dark Highlander
Author: Karen Marie Moning
Series: Highlander (Book 5)
Genre: Historical Romance, Time Travel



At the end of Kiss of the Highlander, we learned that Drustan's brother Daegus, had sacrificed himself into turning dark to keep Drustan alive for Gwen. This is Daegus' story.

Daegus is in the 21st century and has been in contact with Drustan. Daegus is searching everywhere, trying to find out how to reverse the darkness of the 13 evil Druids who are within him and turning him dark. He has borrowed, bought or collected several ancient tomes in hopes of finding his answer.

Chloe works at a museum and is instructed to take an ancient tome to some man, who happens to be Daegus, to look at. She is slightly horrified by this, worrying for the artifact. When she arrives at Daegus' Penthouse, his door is unlocked and he's not home. She starts to snoop around and check out all of the artifacts he has in his home. She finds the "borrowed" tomes and realizes he's the thief that the police have been looking for. She's under his bed looking at these tomes when Daegus comes home.

Daegus is drawn to Chloe immediately, and ties her to the bed so that she can't leave and tell others what she saw. Eventually he asks her to come to Scotland with him, and since she's always wanted to go there, she agrees. Chloe has no idea what she is in for, nor what Daegus means when he says he can show her a Scotland no one else can.

While I enjoyed the story, and how it came together with the others there were a few things that irritated me. I've had enough of the innocent virgins. I feel like practically every heroine in this series has fallen into this category. Let's be realistic, things just aren't like that in this day. Sure there are the ladies who are like that, but they're doing it mostly for religious or personal reasons. Our heroines are not like that, they simply haven't had the chance. Right.

Secondly, Chloe was kidnapped, essentially, by Daegus and tied to his bed. He is a stranger, yet after a few days she agrees to go with him to Scotland? I've heard about Stockholm Syndrome, but this wasn't the case. Sure, it's a romance novel....but I found this a bit too far fetched for my liking.

Those 2 things aside, it was a good story. I am starting to think that Karen Marie Moning can do little wrong. These are so different from her Fever series, yet just as delicious in their own way.