Excerpt & Giveaway: The Highlander's Choice by Callie Hutton
The
Highlander’s Choice
Marriage Mart Mayhem # 5
Marriage Mart Mayhem # 5
By:
Callie Hutton
Releasing
July 14, 2015
Entangled
Scandalous
Blurb
The
Scottish Highlands, 1815
Lady
Sybil Lacey is every inch an English woman. She's horrified her best
friend is wedding a barbarian Scot. For aren't Scots naught but
brutish, whiskey-swilling lechers? So to find herself secretly
attracted to the tall and devastatingly handsome Scottish laird of
Bedlay Castle is quite disconcerting...
Liam
MacBride is convinced that English ladies are silly sassenachs who
think of nothing but social events and clothes. So why is he
intensely drawn to Lady Sybil? All they do is quarrel...until
loathing turns into undeniable lust.
A
tempestuous, fiery romance between an English lady and a Scottish
laird cannot end well.
Excerpt
Her
first glimpse of Liam when she and Margaret arrived at the great hall
took her breath away. Both men were dressed in traditional Scottish
garb; kilts of their clans, with white lawn shirts, doublets, and
sporrans. By Liam’s side hung a sword that she could imagine him
swinging on a battlefield. His reddish golden hair was pulled back
into a queue and tied with a ribbon.
With
their broad shoulders and height, the men seemed to take all the air
out of the room, despite them being in the great hall. Sybil
certainly felt as though there was a shortage of air. Her lungs
couldn’t seem to get enough of it. Her heart pounded to the extent
she was afraid she would embarrass herself by swooning—something
she’d never done in her life.
No
matter how many times she forced herself to look at the priest, she
found her eyes drifting toward Liam. A finer man had never existed.
His strong chin, chiseled features, and full lips made small little
butterflies in her stomach dance a cotillion. She snapped her head
back to face the priest when Liam caught her staring and gave her a
broad wink. Honestly, the man had no refinement.
I
was the one staring at him.
Her
flustered state kept her from concentrating on the ceremony, and she
was therefore, surprised when Duncan turned to Margaret and gave her
a chaste kiss before they turned to face the guests. A loud cheer
went up from the crowd, foot stomping and whistles reverberating
around the room. The bride and groom and she and Liam, as witnesses,
signed the marriage book.
Duncan
led Margaret to the head table. Liam extended his arm to Sybil, and
she had a flash of being in his arms a few hours ago. Thinking of how
she once again had enjoyed their kiss, heat rose from her middle to
swamp her face, surely turning it red. “Are ye all right, lass?”
His deep voice, lowered so only she could hear, increased her
discomfort.
“Yes,
I’m fine,” she snapped.
He
grinned that wicked smile, turning her insides to mush. “It seems
to me ye are a bit disturbed.”
“Nonsense,
I’m merely emotional over my friend’s wedding.”
Liam
escorted her to a seat alongside Margaret and brushed his mouth near
her ear. “Dinna fash yerself, lass. ’Twas only a kiss.”
He
straightened and took his seat next to her.
’Twas
only a kiss?
No
doubt to a randy Scot that incident was merely
a kiss. Most likely
something he used with charming regularity to gain access to women’s
beds. Well, she would not be one of his women. She was a respectable
English miss, who would never dally with a Scot.
I
already have.
Author
Info
The
USA Today bestselling author of The Elusive Wife, Callie Hutton,
writes both Western Historical and Regency romance, with historic
elements and sensory details (The Romance Reviews). She also pens an
occasional contemporary or two. Callie lives in Oklahoma with several
rescue dogs, two adult children, and daughter-in-law (thankfully all
not in the same house), and her top cheerleader husband of
thirty-eight years. She also currently waits with bated breath for
the birth of twin grandsons. Callie loves to hear from readers, and
would welcome you as a friend on Facebook.
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