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    Never Love a Highlander
    Never Love a Highlander
    Never Love a Highlander
    Audiobook8 hours

    Never Love a Highlander

    Written by Maya Banks

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

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    About this audiobook

    Caelen McCabe's young, reckless heart nearly destroyed his clan. Now, putting family loyalty above all else, he steps up to marry his older brother's jilted bride and salvage the uneasy alliance between two clans. While beautiful Rionna McDonald is a fit wife for any man, Caelen trusts no woman, especially not this sweet temptress who torments him with white-hot longing.As the sacrificial lamb in her father's power game, Rionna will do her duty but vows to protect her heart and her pride from humiliation. Despite everything, though, the heat in Caelen's touch melts her defenses, and she craves the sensual delights of a husband who guards his emotions as fiercely as his clan. But when the ultimate battle for the McCabe legacy is upon them, Rionna's true warrior spirit emerges. She will risk the wrath of her father, the fury of her enemies, and her life to prove to Caelen that his wife's love is too precious to lose.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 28, 2012
    ISBN9781452676593
    Never Love a Highlander
    Author

    Maya Banks

    Maya Banks lives in Southeast Texas with her husband and three children. When she’s not writing, she loves to hunt and fish, bum on the beach, play poker and travel. Escaping into the pages of a book is something she’s loved to do since she was a child. Now she crafts her own worlds and characters and enjoys spending as much time with them as possible.

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    • 5/5
      Great love story I overall enjoyed it perfect ending also
    • 4/5
      good story.
    • 4/5
      Well I loved the book ? liked that the main characters ok the dude not so much attitude problem . But the female wow she kicked ass totally. The only issue was the women narrating this book. She just didn't really convince me. But everything else was cool
    • 5/5
      I just love the love in this book. I definitely will be rereading this book over and over.
    • 5/5
      Caelen, volunteers to marry in place of his brother, to Fionna the daughter of the Laird of the McDonald Clan. Caelen, even though he once was burned and doesn't try any woman, is captivated by his new wife. At first he tries to seperate himself from her and put restrictions on her and their marriage, however when he really lets himself see the real Fionna and finds that he starting to fall in love with the one woman that matches him in every way. But then a danger starts to creep up on them, one that only with their love for each other will they be able to defeat those enemies that only wish to destroy them both.Never Love A Highlander is the third installment in the series and I think I almost loved this one as much as the previous book in the series. I just found Caelen so loveable and endearing even though he has a tough exterior on the outside there is a vulnerability in him that just charms this reader. Fionna is precious and has both a gentle side and a side of a warrior princess to protect all those that she loves. They both have pasts that are full of pain and loss however they both need love more than anything, and as events escalate between them so does a passion build until it explodes....I just loved this one, and I loved seeing the interaction between Fionna and Caelen and how there were moments full of wit and humor and there were also moments that will definitely make you cry if you find yourself lost in the story. Never Love A Highlander is full of passionate love scenes, a strong plot, a tender and fierce romance story, and full of everything one needs for a good and strong romance novel.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book as much as the first two. This was a great series and the author did an awesome job. In all of the books she had great characters, a great plot that carried through, an amazing ending to the series. She also released them close together so there wasn't any drag in the action.

      I loved both Caelen and Rionna. I was really looking forward to her story, and it was more than I could have hoped for. Watching the two of them truly fall in love and learn to live together was great. Highly recommend reading the entire series.
    • 5/5
      Loved it! What a dream.... Loved that the story had three strong women in their own ways and the men that loved them! Great love stories that melts your hearts!
    • 2/5
      I'm not big on the 'battle of wills' sort where the man is determined that the woman just needs to be taken in a firm hand. Do the men learn the wrong of their ways by the end? Usually. But a fair chunk in the middle is often eye-roll inducing. Even beyond that, I didn't really feel their chemistry and the story wasn't particularly compelling for me. Just meh.
    • 5/5
      Oh, go read this series already. LOL
    • 5/5
      Never Love a Highlander
      5 Stars

      An incredible ending to an amazing series.

      Rionna is fierce and loyal with the heart of a warrior and Caelen is tortured but capable of so much love. They are a wonderful match and their romance is very satisfying.

      Its a pity the series has ended because some of the secondary characters definitely deserve their own books.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this historical romance especially the exciting ending. At first I was concerned about the hero's treatment of the heroine but it was all explained at the end. Caelen offered to marry Rionna to create an alliance between clans and their marriage gets off to a rocky start.
    • 4/5
      Je ne regrette rien. He took her name in the end and I criiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiied.
    • 4/5
      This is the third and final book in the McCabe Trilogy series by Maya Banks.

      This book features the youngest of the McCabe brother's Caelen and the jilter bride of Alaric McCabe, Rionna McDonald. The main characters of this book are Caelen and Rionna.

      Caelen trust his heart to no woman. At one time a woman destroyed his heart along with part of his family but will he allow Rionna to melt the wall he has build around his heart?

      Caelen step's up in Alaric's place to marry the jilted bride Rionna McDonald. Caelen has this attitude that he can marry and not lose his heart. He can bed the woman and do what he want and even try and change the woman to his idea of what a woman should be. But he refuses to lose his heart.

      Rionna the jilted bride. She really did not want to marry Alaric but was doing so because she thought he would make a better clan leader than her father. She marries Caelen but admits to herself that he is the only man to scare her.

      Rionna is the tougher than average female for her time. She fights with a sword wears men's clothing. But underneath all of that is there actually a woman?

      Rionna's clan the McDonald's has it hard. Her father is a wastrel who only cares about himself. The clan barely has food to eat. The keep is not in excellent repair and the kinights barely know how to weld a sword to fight and defend. Rionna thinks anyone would be a better leader than her father.

      The only way Caelen would agree to the marriage to Rionna is that her father give up leadership immediately upon his marriage to Rionna. Lord McDonald is furious over this but agrees because the King has decreed it. Lord McDonald believes that he can either change Rionna's mind or find help with the few knight's with him.

      Yes, the villain Lord Cameron is still with us in this book and causing lot's of problems for the McCabe's and McDonald's.



      I enjoyed reading this book. I thought the author developed a great plot that carried through 3 books with interesting characters.

      The bunnies and I give this book 4 Carrots.
    • 5/5
      I liked this book much better than the first in the trilogy, but I feel that is the way it is in trilogies. It's a learning process, that through different characters, the author grows and finds what really clicks. This couple was way more likeable than Ewan and Mairin. She whined all the time and he was overbearing. Caelen and Rionna (which I mentally pronounced Ree-own-a because I didn't like Rihanna and I knew a mean girl named Rhiannon growing up, and Rionna had a nice Scottish sound, but I digress...)were the couple in this book. She is essentially a warrior princess who knows who she is and doesn't care what other people think. Caelen is gruff warrior who agreed to marry Rionna, because his two brothers fell in love with other women when they were engaged to Rionna. Rionna is an empowered female who wasn't whimpering like Mairin and Caelen wasn't as stubborn as Ewan. I have the second book of the series coming in the mail and the first book of another series by Maya Banks coming tomorrow. It is still set in Scotland with a different family. I hope it will be just as good. Fingers crossed!
    • 5/5
      I grinned stupidly the entire book. This just put a permanent smile on my face.
    • 4/5
      While I enjoyed the story, I did think it was bogged down with too much "Scottish" dialect. Every other sentence started with 'Tis or 'Twas. Over time I found myself focusing on that more than on the story. Oddly enough, I didn't notice this in the first two novels.

      I also found the ending to be a little bit cheesy and over the top. Sweet, to be sure, but..maybe a bit too much for the story.

      Having said that, I did enjoy the novel. Both characters were interesting and the plot was engaging.
    • 4/5
      The third book in the McCabe series. The youngest McCabe brother, Caelen, who is both honorable but bitter, is plagued with remorse due to being led astray by a woman in his youth which caused his father and sister-in-law's deaths. Now he steps up to do his duty and marry the wild Rionna McDonald who has been cast aside by his older brothers and prepare the McDonald clan for the coming war against Duncan Cameron.I haven't read the first two in this series and I'm disappointed to find that our library doesn't have them. When I picked up the book I was just looking for a trashy romance to fill in some time - and it looked very Mills & Boon from the cover which I think was terrible - however I couldn't put it down - it was much better than I expected and has some steamy bedroom scenes!
    • 5/5
      A very worthy conclusion to the end of the McCabe series. Rionna's characters truly kicks some a@@, and she's clever, quick thinking, and while she does have identity issues having to do with her jerk of a father, her upbringing (or her father's ignoring her upbringing) have allowed her to be just as good a leader as her husband, Caelen McCabe. As with Ewan and Mairin, a great deal of the difficulties in their relationship are due to figuring out a balance.










      ****Spoilerish things*****
      The most important of these is Rionna's identity itself. She has dressed as a man, learned to fight like a man, and identifies more with men than women while not being accepted fully by either gender because neither is sure what to do with her. Caelen's intentions to mold her into a "proper lady" sorely misfire when she is attacked and completely unable to defend herself because she has no weapons and is hampered by a dress. Her justly deserved fury at Caelen's trying to change her into something she isn't, therefore resulting in her becoming a victim (part of the reason she dresses the way she does and learned to fight in the first place) starts to make him think, at least some, about what he's doing. When she leads the attack on Duncan Cameron to save him, and then kills Duncan Cameron herself before he can kill Caelen, I have a feeling that Caelen won't be restricting her so much. I hope.

      I liked the touch of Caelen taking the McDonald name at the end--the McDonalds rallied under Rionna to save him, and now they truly are his clan.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book, although not as much as the previous two in the series. If possible I would've given this book 3.5 stars, but since overall I liked the trilogy and was pleased with the happy ending of the story that carried over from the previous books, I rounded up to 4.
    • 5/5
      Fastastic ending to the McCabe trilogy. Kept me on engaged all the way through. Caelen proves to have a love beyond a girls wildest dreams. Rionna is a wonderful warrior princess and very happy to have her strengths acknowledged .. Highly recommend.
    • 4/5
      Book 3 of the McCabe Trilogy involves the story of Caelen, the youngest brother, and Rionna McDonald. Caelen agrees to marry her when his brother falls in love with Keeley (from the previous book), thus insuring the alliance between the clans. His heart has been scarred from a past lover who betrayed his clan, so he fears allowing Rionna into his heart. However, Rionna is a fierce warrior--preferring to wear men's clothes and fight than dresses and housework--and she is used to going after want she wants.Once again, I find myself deeply enjoying the story that Maya Banks weaves. Her characters are always very well balanced and show growth. The story grips you and you can't help but hope for them. However...OH MY GOD. In this book, Ms. Banks used the phrase "'Twas the truth" about 943 times. It was especially bad in the beginning, when it was literally used every other paragraph. There was a point when it was used twice in the same paragraph! It is a really distinctive phrase and it was HEAVILY overused. To the point of distraction. It made me wonder where the editor was on this one.Still really enjoyed the story, and the book, but for my annoyance, this only gets a 4.
    • 5/5
      Caelen McCabe was betrayed and the result was the almost end of his clan. As a way to sacrifice his happiness in order to save his clan, he accepts marry with Rionna McDonald, a woman who wants to be free and not a pawn in her father's game of power. In the end, they get a surprise...Again, a brilliant work by Maya Banks.
    • 4/5
      Final book in the trilogy. I enjoyed the spunk of the heroine, who was not just a door mat.
    • 5/5
      Author: Maya BanksPublished By: Ballantine BooksAge Recommended: AdultReviewed By: Arlena DeanRating: 5Review:"Never Love a Highlander" by Maya Banks was as always a wonderful read. This novel was a conclusion to a wonderful trilogy that only this author..Maya Banks can deliver. The novel was of a 'Scottish' historical romance of the McCabe trilogy. What would become of Caelen and Rionna as he takes over the McDonald Clan...where there had been a marriage out of the sense of duty...returns to take over the McDonald clan. Ms. Banks offers us a relationship between Caelen and Rionna only causing this to be a very hot, steamy and sexual read...all the characters were so very strong and well developed that would only keep the reader on the edge of their seat. You will find from the read that this hero and heroine both "had been wounded deeply by their pass and nothing could heal it but only each other." Now, for you to found out how this will play out you must pick up "Never Love a Highlander" to find out just what Ms. Banks has in store for the reader. I felt this novel flowed very well...especially with it being the last of this series...being very interesting and even suspenseful. Be ready for a novel presenting..."romance, betrayal, a bit of mystery" and a over all excellent read. If you are looking for a 'McCabe Series' that only Ms. Banks can give us... you have come to the right place and yes I would recommend "Never Love a Highlander" as a excellent read.
    • 4/5
      A satisfying ending to this trilogy. Ms. Banks does an excellent job of maintaining each character's "voice" from story to story; a definite plus to any series.
    • 5/5
      Read for FunChallenges: Read for FunOverall Rating: 4.50Story Rating: 4.50Character Rating: 4.50First thing I thought when Finished: Good wrap up of the trilogy but wanted Gannon to fall madly in love with someone :)What I Loved: Never Love a Highlander wrapped up the McCabe Trilogy very well leaving us with hope, love, and family. I always like when everyone is involved in the last book and you leave a series smiling. This was definitely one of those stories that I thought weaved together very well. Rionna was a fantastic leading lady and I felt her story was moving.What I Liked: Caelen and Rionna were a fantastic couple but I didn't love them as much as the other two couples. That being said, I was rooting for them the whole time!What left me wanting: Gannon not getting an HEA! I really loved his character :)Final Thought: I would highly recommend the whole series