Welcome to week four in our Medieval Monday hop! Today I’m welcoming back Cathy MacRae who has a snippet from The Highlander’s Crusader Bride. I do so love a good celebration along with a stunning cover, don’t you? Happy reading and enjoy, my lovelies!
Snippet:
The crowd followed. Pausing at the door to the castle’s small chapel, Arbela and Caelen exchanged their vows. Caelen’s voice flowed solemnly to Arbela’s ears.
“I receive ye as mine, that ye become my wife and I yer husband.”
She repeated the words back to him. “I receive ye as mine, that ye become my husband, and I your wife.”
THE HIGHLANDER’S CRUSADER BRIDE
By Cathy MacRae
Born in the Holy Land to a life of danger and adventure, Arbela MacLean is not the bride Caelen expected.
Born in the Holy Land only a few years after the Third Crusade, half-Armenian, half-Scot Arbela MacLean is a true daughter of the desert, beautiful and untamed. Trained to be a warrior to avoid her gentle mother’s fate, Arbela has honed her skills with Turkish bow and arrow, sword, and throwing darts—and dreads the day her father choses a man for her to marry.
After more than thirty years in the Holy Land, Donal MacLean, Baron of Batroun, is recalled to Scotland, the last son available to take up leadership of clan MacLean. He brings with him knights, treasure, trade—and a daughter of marriageable age.
Caelen MacKern, known as the Bull of the Highlands, is cynical about women. His first marriage formed an alliance, and he did not grieve when his spoiled, immature bride passed away. He has agreed to marry again—against his better judgement—for the men, means, and coin to recover from a devastating pestilence that all but wiped out his clan.
More than a little resentful at finding himself forced to remarry, Caelen’s proposal to Donal MacLean’s headstrong daughter nevertheless piques her interest. Each will receive what they want most from life—the ability to live as they please without interference from a meddling spouse. But their marriage of indifference will soon change to one of passion that neither Arbela nor Caelen could have predicted.
Buy links:
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Follow Cathy for next week’s snippet on Ruth A. Casie’s blog: http://ruthacasie.blogspot.co.uk
LOVE this book!!! Wonderful snippet, Cathy!!!
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Thank you SO much, Lane!
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It’s a great snippet!
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Thanks, Sherry! ❤
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Thanks for hosting me today, Sherry!! Happy Medieval Monday!
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Happy Medieval Monday, Cathy!
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Beautiful snippet, Cathy! 🙂
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Thank you, Judith! And thanks for stopping by today!
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Looking forward to what Cathy has in store for us next week!
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So sweet and heart-felt !! I love that your celebration centers around their wedding.
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Thank you, Barbara! I loved weaving the two cultures into the wedding scene. 🙂
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I do love a good wedding scene!
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I love the book, the cover, and the snippet. A real trifecta!
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Thank you times 3, Ruth! What a sweet thing to say!
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Oh, how beautiful, Cathy! Big sigh…
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Weddings are such romantic celebrations, right, Mary?
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Nice snippet, Cathy!
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Thank you, Laurel!
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