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Consuming Fire (Scottish Highlands Series #2)

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Adam Campbell is sent to retrieve Maggie from her home at the monastery where she wishes to become a nun. He feels a sense of dread at taking this girl from her safe haven unto the mess of a family that she ran from. But his cousin's life is on the line and he has no choice.

As they travel back from the monastery Adam and Maggie become quite close. When they arrive at her home and he starts to leave her the trust and closeness is shattered as she believes he betrayed her. Before he leaves he tells her if she should ever have need, that she was to call on him and he would come and get her.

On the brink of starvation, her sister and maid strive to save her and send for Adam. When she and her maid are settled at his home, Adam comes to realize he is in love with Maggie, but Maggie is wary of trusting this man again and makes it clear she wishes to go back to the monastery.

With every step forward they make, he feels a sense of guilt over things done in the past that he has kept from her . . . but her trust is so fragile, it might drive her away for ever . . .

The second book in this series is even better then the first, I can't wait to read the next

It can be difficult to transition a character from a villain in one book to a hero in another. But Kathleen Morgan does this so very brilliantly with Adam Campbell in "Consuming Fire." Adam finds forgiveness and a deep relationship with the Lord in this sequel to "Embrace the Dawn." Altough this book can be read without reading its predecessor, it is more enjoyable if you read them in order as you will be more invested in supporting characters.

Adam Campbell goes to the convent to collect Maggie Robertson and bring her home to her dying father. Maggie is unaware that there is a political motivation for this act, but knows her family well enough to realize that all is not what it seems. But Adam cannot help his growing feelings for Maggie or his desire to protect her. Will he trade Maggie for his imprisoned cousin when they arrive in Scotland? Or will his desire to keep Maggie for himself override? And will the strong Scottish lass make it difficult or easy for this man she is growing to care for?

Suspense and intrigue abound in this well-penned novel.

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Consuming Fire is another love story by Kathleen Morgan set in the Scottish Highlands. There is nothing original or fresh about the story, on any level; romances set in the Scottish Highlands are ubiquitous, and the plot is fairly standard, as well. Nevertheless, Morgan's writing is skilled enough to make the book an easy, light, pleasant read.

The book is set in 1694, with the several characters caught up in the turmoil that was Scottish politics at that time. Maggie Robertson and Adam Campbell meet early in the book and, although it's a foregone conclusion that they are going to end up together, they do travel a rocky road before finally finding peace together.

There were a few weaknesses in the plot, such as Maggie's father demanding that Adam go to Flanders to bring her back home as payment for his involvement in the death of Maggie's brother. This struck me as being like someone demanding that you take care of their pet cat (or dog) as payback for accidently killing their other pet cat. I just couldn't see the retribution?? Besides, if Maggie's father wanted her back in Scotland -- and he did -- there were any number of people he could have sent to do it, such as some of his clansmen. What was such a big deal about it that Adam had to do it (other than the fact that the author wanted it that way)?

Another weakness -- although this is just a matter of personal taste -- is that the author wraps everything up nicely and neatly at the end, with the really, really bad guys meeting their just ends and the good guys coming through practically unscathed. Probably some -- maybe even most -- readers like such happily-ever-after endings to their books; I prefer endings that are a little less sweet and a little more poignant. They make for much stronger and more memorable books.

The final weakness is one that I can't totally put my finger on, except to say that in the last few chapters I was definitely getting weary with the story and with the heroine Maggie especially. Her continuous self-assessments, as well as her on-again, off-again love for Adam, wore thin. Granted he was much older and therefore more mature, but Adam's unwavering love for her and unselfish assessment of the situations they were embroiled in made him a far more sympathetic character; indeed, by the end I was starting to wonder just what he really did see in the self-centered Maggie (besides her physical beauty, of course).

This book is a sequel to Embrace the Dawn; however, it is not necessary to read the first book in order to easily grasp the second. In fact, I couldn't recommend reading the first since I only made it through the first 90 pages before giving up on it.

Kathleen Morgan's books are light, easy reads that don't tap into your emotions, but make for a short, pleasant intermission between other books. If you're interested in a clean (no sex, profanity or violence) romantic story set in the Scottish Highlands then I can recommend it.

Good book, started a bit slow for me but once i read more i really got into it. It's a little hard trying to understand some of the Scottish words and stuff but it you get used to it.The story is about Maggie, a young woman who runs to a nunnery to get away from the evil men in her life. After Adam a man who has been sent by Maggie's father to bring her back arrives, Maggie's life will never be the same.