Best Scottish/Highlander Historical Romances List!

As Geddes MacGregor once said, “No one in Scotland can escape from the past. It is everywhere, haunting like a ghost." Scotland’s past is the subject of my list below, romance novels I have come to love that feature Scotland and the Highlands—or a Scottish hunk to love. I have rated them all at least 4 stars, and many 4 ½ or 5 stars.

• The Pride of Lions, The Blood of Roses and Midnight Honor by Marsha Canham
• On a Highland Shore and Rivals for the Crown by Kathleen Givens
• Kilgannon and The Wild Rose of Kilgannon by Kathleen Givens
• The Legend and The Destiny by Kathleen Givens
• The Magnificent Rogue by Iris Johansen
• If You Dare, If You Desire and If You Deceive (the MacCarrick Brothers trilogy) by Kresley Cole
• Beloved Rogue by Penelope Williamson
• Without Honor by Elizabeth Stuart
• Heartstorm by Elizabeth Stuart
• A Year and a Day by Virginia Henley
• Tempted and The Border Hostage, duology by Virginia Henley
• The Bedeviled Heart by Carmen Caine
• My Wicked Enchantress by Meagan McKinney
• Laird of the Mist by Paula Quinn (and all six in her MacGregor/Children of the Mist Series)
• A Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught
• Almost Heaven by Judith McNaught
• The Passionate One, The Reckless One and The Ravishing One (the McClairen’s Isle trilogy) by Connie Brockway
• Outlander (and others in the series, and though there is a Highland hero, not all take place in Scotland) by Diana Gabaldon
• Come The Morning, Conquer the Night, Seize the Dawn, Knight Triumphant, The Lion in Glory, When We Touch and The Queen’s Lady (the Graham series) by Heather Graham Pozzessere
• Knight of Fire by Shannon Drake (aka Heather Graham)
• Lord of Fire by Emma Merritt
• Highland Rebel by Judith James
• Devil of Kilmartin by Laurin Wittig
• Charming the Shrew and Daring the Highlander (MacLeod duology) by Laurin Wittig
• Desiring the Highlander by Michele Sinclair
• Highland Warrior, Highland Outlaw and Highland Scoundrel (the Campbell trilogy) by Monica McCarty
• A Gentle Feuding by Johanna Lindsey
• White Knight by Jaclyn Reding
• A Dangerous Love, The Border Lord's Bride, The Captive Heart, The Border Lord And The Lady, The Border Vixen and Bond Of Passion (from The Border Chronicles) by Bertrice Small
• To Conquer a Highlander, Highland Hellcat and Highland Heat by Mary Wine
• To Beguile a Beast by Elizabeth Hoyt (one of the Four Soldiers series)
• Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (the only fantasy on my list, but this and the others in the Daughters of the Glen series are good) by Melissa Mayhue
• A Hunger Like No Other (the only paranormal on the list, but it’s a superb story and features a Highland hunk to die for) by Kresley Cole