Category: Scottish/Highlander

Three Days to Be Ruined by Giovanna Siniscalchi

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Three Days to Be Ruined: A Victorian Historical Romance (The Winemakers Book 5)Three Days to Be Ruined: A Victorian Historical Romance by Giovanna Siniscalchi

Tracy’s Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

Series” The Winemakers, #5

Release Date: December 4, 2024

Six years ago, Miss Elizabeth “Beth” Croft was jilted by her fiancé and has had no other offers, but now her father is demanding she wed. Her father is an English gentleman and wine importer living in Portugal and was once the most successful importer in Oporto, but now he is ill and tittering on the edge of bankruptcy. He tells Beth she will have to marry Portugal’s premiere winemaker, Boyd Sandeman and sends her to meet with Boyd and to make an offer to merge their companies through marriage. With no choice, Beth goes to meet with Boyd and is shocked when he demands that she spend the Christmas holiday with him at his estate, where he will subject her to challenges to determine if she will be a suitable wife.

Transplanted Scotsman, Boyd Sandeman is a self-made man, who unbeknownst to Beth has been nurturing a grudge against her father for many years and with her proposal finally has the perfect opportunity to enact his revenge by rejecting and humiliating Beth in front of society. He invites his friends to join them, including Beth’s former fiancé Griffin Maxwell and his wife Julia, who he assumes will help him with his plan. But nothing goes as planned and soon Boyd realizes he has made a huge mistake, but is it too late to make things right, or has he lost his chance for a true HEA?

This was a great story! I am typically not a fan of revenge stories, but this was so well done, that I loved it! Boyd and Beth are wonderful characters, and I wanted them to find happiness together. This story has laugh out loud moments, revenge, meddling friends, steamyish love scenes, and finally a very sweet happy ending complete with an epilogue. Overall, this was a delightful read with a happy ending and a story that I would be happy to recommend. While this is part of a series, it can easily be read as a standalone title with no problems.

*I am voluntarily leaving a review for an eARC that I requested and was provided to me by the publisher/author. All opinions in this review are my own. *

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Review: Murder At Glenloch Hill by Clara McKenna

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Murder at Glenloch Hill (A Stella and Lyndy Mystery Book 6)Barbara’s rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
Series: Stella and Lyndy Mysteries #6
Publication Date: 11/26/24
Period: Edwardian – Scotland
Number of Pages: 293

Stella and Lyndy take a short jaunt to Scotland to meet Stella’s distant cousin and cheer on her soon-to-be brother-in-law, Freddy, as he plays in the British Open. Things don’t go as smoothly or as pleasantly as they had hoped when Stella stumbles across a dead body. The dead man is none other than Freddy’s father, Edwin (we’ve met him in previous books), and, unfortunately, he and Lyndy had an altercation the previous evening.

With plots, subplots, and mysteries galore, Lyndy soon becomes the focus of the investigation. Will the inept investigator jail Lyndy and forget about anyone else? Stella knows she has to solve the mystery if she wants to save Lyndy—and save him she will.

This was another delightful addition to the series and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Stella and Lyndy. I also enjoyed seeing the growth in Alice, Lyndy’s sister, as she seems to blossom while away from her mother. Lyndy and Stella’s relationship has also deepened and I enjoyed learning they were trying to conceive.

Overall, this was a well-written mystery with compelling characters, victims, and villains. You’ll vacillate between potential murderers – which is it? What reason did they have for murdering Sir Edwin? I hope you will enjoy this mystery as much as I did!

I voluntarily read an early copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.