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A Highlander Christmas

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I found "A Highlander for Christmas" to be an utterly delightful and even moving read. The whole book reads like a breeze with it's likeable characters and easy to follow plot. The story had me in tears at times, and mind you, I don't tear up easily when I read a romance. Though the book is a stand alone and I certainly recommend it to anyone, I think any fans of Ms. Chapman should definitely pick this one up, particularly if they want a nice holiday treat filled with magic and miracles that will bring them back to visit the McKeage clan. I sure hope there are more books to come in this lovely series... would definitely love to read Fiona's story!

A WONDERFUL BOOK! Janet's Style of writing would please any reader! HER BEST BOOK TO DATE!
Can't wait for more!

French rocket scientist Luke Pascal Renoir and NASA physicist Dr. Camry MacKeage have been exchanging emails. However, she quits NASA as magic and science seems a poor mix. Camry flees to Maine where she becomes a dog sitter whose BFFs are Tigger and Max.

Jack Stone and Camry's parents rescue Luke from certain death due to a blizzard on their frozen mountain top. The outsider mentions his corresponded with Camry shocking her family with her former and present occupation as they thought she was working in Florida. He further explains she said no to his request to collaborate on an ion propulsion model and abruptly stopped responding when he said he would like to meet her in the States. Luke went to NASA but she had quit. Her mom demands Luke amend his transgression by persuading Camry to come home to celebrate the solace with her family. He will learn a little bit of magic and a lot of love makes the heart pump faster.

The latest MacKeage whimsical romance stars the first daughter Camry who struggles with magic vs. science especially her heritage and Renoir. From the opening scene when the matriarch Dr. Grace welcomes a frozen Luke into the family while the patriarch Grey wants to leave him exposed to the blizzard, the cast makes for an engaging holiday time. Although long time fans will notice some similarity to Secrets of the Highlander, Janet Chapman cleverly spins the tale differently so that readers will enjoy celebrating A HIGHLANDER CHRISTMAS in Maine.

Harriet Klausner

Camry, a rocket scientist like her mother, fears the magic that seems to inflict everyone in her family. After losing her job at NASA from stress and lack of focus, no thanks to another scientist in France, a man who questions one of her formulas through email and he just happens to be right, Camry flees and secrets herself away in the small coastal town of Go Back Cove.

Then a handsome stranger shows up, and Camry finds herself forced by the magic she fears to reevaluate her life. But Camry soon discovers that this stranger is not actually a stranger at all, but the very scientist whom Camry had the unfortunate pleasure of passing emails with--Lucian Renoir, or rather Luke Pascal. Camry and Luke realize that there's no point in fighting the magic, for Providence will have it's way.

When I pick up a Janet Chapman book I know I'm going to get something special. Something filled with magic and a sweetly sensual romance. I'm going to get two people falling in love with fun and witty dialogue along the way. And in A Highlander Christmas I got just that. This one is another of her wonderful Highlander novels Starring Camry MacKeage, one of the seven daughters of Greylen and Grace MacKeage who began this delightful series in Charming the Highlander (Highlander Trilogy).

Another lighthearted tale by Janet Chapman. Just right for this holiday season to brighten your day and warm your heart! BELIEVE IN THE MAGIC!

This was a delightful read absolutley lively and romantic. All books by Janet Chapman are in my opinion easy breezy reads. This one was added to my collection I encourage you to add it to yours.

A sign of an interesting author is when you read a book by them for the first time - you start looking up their other books to peruse. I was unfamiliar with the Highlander series, but that made no difference in the satisfaction of this. It honestly isn't much of a Christmas book, the emphasis is on the solstice and the family celebrations of the birthdays that occur on that day.
Several lives interconnect, Camry who is fired from her job at NASA and hides it from her family and Luke who hero worships Camry's mother and believes he has made her satellite crash. Luke has other secrets as well; but the most important factor in order to enjoy this novel is to suspend your powers of disbelief as characters shift in and out of time and age and depend upon the power of enchantment. Sometimes it's nice to believe in the power of magic and love and family and if that is what you wish, then you will enjoy this `Highlander Christmas'.

Summary: Camry MacKeage has absolutely no intention of telling her parents that she left her job as a NASA physicist for the small-town life of a dog-sitter -- which is why she's spending the holidays alone in coastal Maine with her furry friends Tigger and Max. Unfortunately, her irresistibly handsome rival, scientist Luke Pascal, accidentally spilled the beans. Now he's on a mission from her mother to tempt Camry home for the family's annual winter solstice celebration. But Luke is hiding his own secret, and he'll need a little bit of magic to earn Camry's trust...and a whole lot of mistletoe to seduce his way into her heart.

'A Highlander Christmas' was actually a very endearing magic-filled romance. I enjoyed reading this book, I loved the main characters and I loved how they are both geeks, hard core geeks, its not often you see that in a romance. This book contains a bit of magic, love, lust, science, and even a "sort of" fairy godmother, ok well she's a real mother, but sometimes they are one and the same. I liked the addition of love between other characters as well, usually it is just the main characters, but in this book you see the love the parents have for each other and their children, I quite enjoyed that. I also found out this book is actually number seven in a series, I hadn't read any of the other books and wasn't lots at all...pretty good deal. Oh and the single one thing I love most is that this family celebrates the solstice...I NEVER see that in a book, and since it's my holiday too...I was very pleased to see this holiday for once count for a holiday.

What a fun and sweet book this, A Highlander Christmas by Janet Chapman and just in time for the holidays too. Camry is having a bit of a mid life crisis if you will. She was fired from her job at NASA and has decided to work as a dog walker and tend bar. Hiding from her family she is afraid to face who she really is and scared that science and magic just don't mix. In comes Luke, who is a French Physicist who has been corresponding with Camry while she was at NADA and completely debunked some of her work, resulting in Camry getting fired.
Rightly so, their correspondence immediately stops and Luke just about freezes half to death trying to find her. Only to be taken in my her parents, much to her fathers chagrin. Confessing, albeit accidentally to her parents that she no longer works for NASA her mother sends him on the mission to find her and bring her home. Just in time for the Winter Solstice. This is more than some magical celebration, it is her birthday, as well as her sisters as well, a celebration she has yet to miss.
This book just made me smile and laugh at times since Camry and Luke were just so much alike that Camry is already half in love with Luke before she finds out who he really is. Completely heart warming and just in time for the holidays this is a true can't miss for one of those curl up on the couch lazy days. So many elements of magic and just good old fashioned romance you can't help but want to see Camry and Luke find their HEA.

This is actually book 7 in the series. I had no idea but now I can't wait to go back and read the others.

I'd never read a Highlander book before (or a Janet Chapman book, for that matter), though I'd heard lots about them. I was therefore a little bit worried about starting with this one, which is apparently the 7th in the series. I was also a little bit worried because I'd never read a real "romance" before.
I shouldn't have been worried. I LOVED this book. I started it one morning sitting in bed and then just read on and on until I finished, shirking everything else I had to do that morning. It was a literal case of "I can't put this book down."
Not only was this book an amazing love story, it also contained some science fiction-esque paranormal aspects. I realize now that, if I have previously known more about Janet Chapman, I might have expected this. I'm glad I didn't, though, because when it came as such a surprise, it just made the book all that much more enjoyable!
It also was about two scientists falling in love - as a mathematician, I found this especially endearing. It also added a science versus magic aspect, making the book actually feel deep at times, which was yet again unexpected. Interesting points were brought up that left me thinking well after the book was over. Is it really sometimes better to just sit back and trust in the miracle that you can create by just believing? Or should we try to explain everything, even when it seems unexplainable?
I don't know if any other Janet Chapman books live up to the excellence this book has brought me to expect, but I will definitely be reading more to find out. I want to know more about the Mackeage clan and the magic that guides them through life!

I haven't read (I don't think) any of the Highlander Series and still enjoyed this book. Since I was not aware of the `magic/supernatural' element I was push along with the Luke in believing in love and magic. Luke Pascal is from Canada and had been emailing Camry MacKeage for over a year about their shared passion for science. When Luke comes looking for Camry after she stops email him -- he ends up in a small town in Maine falling for Camry.

Looking forward to Tempt Me If You Can(Ben Sinclair's story - Book 2 of the Sinclair Brother Series) due out March 2010 - which was the series that turned me onto this author.