Spell of the Highlander

Title: Spell of the Highlander
Author: Karen Marie Moning
Series: Highlander (Book 7)
Genre: Historical Romance, Time Travel


Jessi is working on her PhD and therefore has no life. She's walked on by the professor that she assists and *surprise* is a virgin. The professor gives her a call from the hospital and asks her to sign for a delivery at his office. She goes willingly, and accepts the package. It is such an expensive package, that she is required to see what is inside to confirm that she got it. She looks inside and sees a mirror. Jessi returns another day and instead of simply seeing a mirror, she now sees a Highland Warrior inside the mirror and a first attempt of many, is made on her life.

Cian MacKeltar, ancestor to Dageous, Drustan and the rest of the MacKelters, has been trapped in the mirror for 1100 years (give or take). No one has ever spelled him out, until Jessi needs help to save her life. Apparently, they need each other to stay alive and get away (with the mirror) from the "bad guy." Cian can only be out of the mirror for randomly spaced/lengths of time, which makes every moment he's out critical. He also is quite adept at Voice, but that combined with his disappearing, makes for some interesting situations for Jessi.

Cian is up against a deadline, and takes Jessi to MacKelter land, where they encounter Dageous and Drustan. Together, the three Druids try to come up with a solution to Cian's problem (which I won't spoil, because it doesn't come up for a while).

This book gave me goosebumps at the end. I realized that this whole series was setting up for the Fever series, this book in particular. The Fae Queen talks about how she is going to go missing and how she brought the 5 Druids from across time together to be her champions - the Fever story.

Aside from setting up for Fever, I loved the little twist that Cian in the mirror has added to the story. It makes it a little more bitter sweet and adds that wrench into things. I was totally amazed by this series as a whole, and it makes me want to reread the Fever series again.