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    The Laird Takes a Bride: The Penhallow Dynasty
    The Laird Takes a Bride: The Penhallow Dynasty
    The Laird Takes a Bride: The Penhallow Dynasty
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    The Laird Takes a Bride: The Penhallow Dynasty

    Written by Lisa Berne

    Narrated by Elle Newlands

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    About this audiobook

    Lisa Berne’s Penhallow Dynasty series continues as a Highlander marries against his will—and discovers he may have found the perfect bride.

    Alasdair Penhallow, laird of his clan and master of Castle Tadgh, is forced to end his carefree bachelorhood, thanks to an ancient decree that requires him to marry. But Alasdair’s search for a biddable wife comes to a screeching halt when Fate serves up Fiona Douglass. Prickly as a thistle, Fiona challenges him at every turn, rendering herself surprisingly irresistible. Her love would be a prize indeed . . . if Alasdair could accept it.

    Fiona gave her heart once, and doesn’t plan to repeat that folly. Yet she finds herself drawn to Alasdair’s intelligence and strength, and the passion he incites goes well beyond her expectations for what’s only a marriage of expedience. Despite herself, she’s falling in love with her husband.

    But there’s a high wall between them—and Fiona’s not sure it can ever be torn down.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateAug 29, 2017
    ISBN9780062683953
    The Laird Takes a Bride: The Penhallow Dynasty
    Author

    Lisa Berne

    Lisa Berne read her first Georgette Heyer novel at fourteen — it was the effervescent Lady of Quality — and was instantly captivated. Later, she was a graduate student, a grant writer, and a teacher — and now writes historical romance for Avon Books, with her stories set mostly in Regency-era Britain. She lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest. Please visit Lisa on the web at www.LisaBerne.com . . .  and say hello on Facebook! LisaBerneAuthor

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    • 5/5
      Best book out of the series. I would read again.
    • 3/5
      The Laird Takes A Bride is the second book in the Penhallow Dynasty and this is where we have Alasdair?s book so I was pretty eager for this one, because I adored his character in the first book ?You May Kiss The Bride?.In The Laird Takes A Bride we have a story that begins with our heroine. Fiona has witnessed multiple marriages of her family members and clansmen and women, but has never found a marriage of her own. She has had to watch a man she once loved be her sister?s husband. Fiona is well learned and independent and strong willed. She is really the glue that keeps her family?s home together. But when her father hears of a group of women being gathered to win the hand of Alasdair Penhallow, he forces her to go along with it. From the start Aladair and Fiona are at odds with each other. Fiona really has no desire to win over Alasdair?s affections especially when there are many women that want him more than she does. Then fate deals its hand, and Fiona finds herself married to Alasdair.In The Laird Takes A Bride we have a story that I liked but I won?t say that I loved it, in fact there were times I really struggled with this one. The story line was solid and as individuals I become endeared to these characters. Both Alasdair and Fiona were fantastic characters that you want to cheer for. But I have one complaint that really could make the story drag in the first half. The Angst in this book was not my cup of tea. Now many who know my taste in romance, understand I love some good angst in romance. However in this book it felt a bit off and not quite what I was expecting. It disrupted the flow of the story at times and I really had a hard time getting into this one. Thankfully, once you reach the middle of the story, then it starts to level off and we really get to the heart of the romance and this is where it really blossomed. If you like the way that Lisa Berne handled the angst in her writing, thanI definitely feel you won?t have any problems with this one. But for some reason, I struggled with it. Once we get past the angsty part of the story, then it gets really good and I couldn?t put it down.There were many other elements that had me really enjoying this story. I did like seeing Alasdair and Fiona work through the issues that had been building in the first half of the book. We see them come to terms with it, accept it and just embrace their new life together. And on the plus side we have a side romance involving Alasair?s uncle and Fiona?s companion and they were so cute together. They added some charm to the story which I found very appealing.Overall The Laird Takes A Bride is a story that is humor filled, an full on angst romance that brings together two that bridge the gap between love and hate?.a romance to capture your attention!!
    • 4/5
      Alasdair Penhallow is the laird in the title. Since he just turned thirty-five, it turns out there's a rule that he must find a bride or lose all, including his life. Fiona Douglass is an unwilling candidate for his hand according to the rules, but both decide fairly quickly that marriage between them won't do. So Fiona watches the other three candidates vie for Alasdair's favor in a series of Bachelor-type contests.As it turns out, Fiona and Alasdair are married much to their dismay and must find a way to create a real marriage despite issues from their pasts.I just read the first book in this series and enjoyed it, so I moved on to this one which I also liked very much. Ms. Berne has an engaging writing style that makes the reader want to keep going in the book (even when she should turn the light off and go to sleep). I liked both Fiona and Alasdair; they were a good match. I especially liked the way the author treated the beginning of their marriage. There was no instant seduction and grand sex scenes. Instead, we have a blase and perfunctory joining that is solely for the purpose of procreation. Too often I read historical romances where the hero and heroine dislike each other, but are immediately drawn into the throes of passion. I found this a nice change.I was annoyed a bit with the book of rules and the device used for the marriage, but that was a small bother in an otherwise enjoyable read.