Best Scottish Historical Romances!

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 are set in the past of Scotland, most in that magical part of Scotland called the Highlands. Some are romances with a Scots hero. All are rated 5, 4 ½ or 4 stars. Enjoy!

·                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

·                A Gentle Feuding by Johanna Lindsey

·                A Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught

·                A Year and a Day by Virginia Henley

·                Abducted Heiress by Amanda Scott

·                Almost Heaven by Judith McNaught

·                Beloved Rogue by Penelope Williamson

·                Border Lord by Arnette Lamb

·                Bound to the Highlander by Kate Robbins

·                Bride of the MacHugh by Jan Cox Speas

·                Charming the Shrew and Daring the Highlander (MacLeod duology) by Laurin Wittig

·                Claimed by Tarah Scott

·                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

·                Davy’s Last Ride by Brit Darby

·                Desiring the Highlander by Michele Sinclair

·                Devil of Kilmartin by Laurin Wittig

·                Devil’s Mistress by Heather Graham

·                Emerald Embrace by Shannon Drake (aka Heather Graham)

·                Forever My Love by Rebecca Brandewyne

·                Heartstorm by Elizabeth Stuart

·                Highland Moon by Judith E. French

·                Highland Rebel by Judith James

·                Highland Warrior, Highland Outlaw and Highland Scoundrel (the Campbell trilogy) by Monica McCarty

·                Highlander’s Hope (Regency based in Scotland) by Collette Cameron

·                If You Dare, If You Desire and If You Deceive (the MacCarrick Brothers trilogy) by Kresley Cole

·                Kilgannon and The Wild Rose of Kilgannon by Kathleen Givens

·                Knight of Fire by Shannon Drake (aka Heather Graham)

·                Lady of the Glen by Jennifer Roberson

·                Laird of the Mist by Paula Quinn (and all six in her MacGregor/Children of the Mist Series)

·                Lord of Fire by Emma Merritt

·                Moonstruck Madness by Laurie McBain

·                My Lord Monleigh by Jan Cox Speas

·                My Wicked Enchantress by Meagan McKinney

·                On a Highland Shore and Rivals for the Crown by Kathleen Givens

·                Oriana by Valerie Vayle

·                Rebellion by Nora Roberts

·                Rosamund by Bertrice Small, 1^st in the Friarsgate Chronicles

·                Silk and Steel by Cordia Byers

·                Sound of the Heart by Genevieve Graham

·                Snow Raven by Patricia McAllister

·                Tempted and The Border Hostage, duology by Virginia Henley

·                The Bedeviled Heart, The Daring Heart and The Bold Heart by Carmen Caine

·                The Border Lord by Jan Westcott

·                The Captive by Parris Afton Bonds

·                The Chieftain’s Curse by Francis Housden

·                The Guardian by Margaret Mallory

·                The Lady and the Laird, Nicola Cornick

·                The Legend and The Destiny by Kathleen Givens

·                The Magnificent Rogue by Iris Johansen

·                The Passionate One, The Reckless One and The Ravishing One (the McClairen’s Isle trilogy) by Connie Brockway

·                The Pride of Lions, The Blood of Roses and Midnight Honor by Marsha Canham

·                The Renegade (first released as The Renegade and The Rose) by Christine Dorsey

·                The Queen’s Lady by Shannon Drake (aka Heather Graham)

·                The Scotsman by Juliana Garnett (aka Virginia Brown)

·                To Beguile a Beast by Elizabeth Hoyt (one of the Four Soldiers series)

·                To Conquer a Highlander, Highland Hellcat and Highland Heat by Mary Wine

·                White Knight by Jaclyn Reding

·                Without Honor by Elizabeth Stuart

 

      And a few outside my usual reading:

·                Outlander (the only time travel on the list; not all in the series take place in Scotland , though the hero is a Highlander) by Diana Gabaldon

·                Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (and others in the Daughters of the Glen series, the only fantasy on the list) 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