Highland Rising by Anna Markland

Highland Rising by Anna Markland
Series: The House of Pendray series Book #4
on May 27, 2019
Genres: Fiction / Sagas
Pages: 296
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Gray Pendray has worked in Edinburgh as a spy for the Scottish Privy Council for three years. When the Earl of Argyll foments an uprising against the king, Gray returns home to infiltrate the rebel army.Faith Cameron is the daughter of a man executed for treason and a mad mother who took her own life. Fostered into the Pendray family, she has longed for Gray's return, though she realizes she isn't a suitable match for the son of a noble family.Gray is immediately drawn to Faith whom he discovers has grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman-but he has made commitments to the daughter of his mentor in Edinburgh. Can love find a way to overcome the divide between them and triumph over the dangers and betrayals of a rebellion?

Highland Rising is book four in The House of Pendray series by Anna Markland. This series explores Scottish history in the late 1680’s. Markland is a master of weaving actual historic events into the lives of her characters without taking anything away from the romance of her story. Highland Rising is a perfect blend of actual history and steamy love. Grainger Pendray is the youngest son of Morgan and Hannah Pendray (Highland Betrayal) and this is his story. I really enjoyed this book. Gray and Faith have a special relationship that weathers hardship. “…Gray, stripped to the waist, his long hair wet and broad shoulders glistening. He was Poseidon, newly emerged from the deep…It wasn’t the first time she’d seen a man’s body, and she knew men were made differently from women. But she’d never been so overwhelmingly awed by sheer masculine beauty, never felt the intense longing that threatened to consume her as she swayed like a reed in the wind.” I have truly enjoyed this entire series and can’t wait to read more of Markland’s work.