Every once in a while, it's nice to see a hero who isn't six feet six inches tall, weighing 200 plus pounds of solid muscle, with a foot long ---- Well, you know. It never fails to amaze me how Janet Chapman can come up with incredible plots and characters. All I can say is....keep on writing Janet. ( )

After a passionate 2 month affair overseas, the heroine is brutally dumped and returns to the states heartbroken and pregnant. She never thought to see the hero again, especially after 5 months without words, but fate has screwed with her again. He's the new chief of police in their small town, he's shaved his beard and goes by a different name but he's just a hansom as ever. At first, it's believed that the heroine was dumped for no reason but it comes to light that he only rejected her to save her life. There was a murder in their camp and he knew that the only way to make her leave was to break up with her. At first you can't understand why he would be so cruel about it but then you begin to understand the heroine and realize that he had no choice. She was your typical run of the mill, stubborn, whinny heroine without any inner character than what you see. She was so dislikable because she was all over the place in regards to her interactions with the hero. At first she hates him, she she loves him, then she hates him, then she's sleeping with him. Honesty, the hero did nothing to warrant this hot and cold attitude. She just whines constantly about controlling men yet the hero was the most laid back and chill dude. I really liked his character best of all because he was mellow and reasonable. But I felt zero chemistry between the characters and in fact, the only passion and love I felt from either of the characters was when they were talking to their unborn son. The scene when the hero meets his son in a dream state was by far the highlight of the book and was so sweet and moving. Unfortunately the rest of the book fell flat. A lot of the same dialogue was repeated over and over until each single member of the family had to have the rundown of why he dumped her in the first place. I grew so bored up until the half way mark when things picked up a bit but it never really got about 2 starts in my opinion. I do think this series has run it's course. Also the baby wasn't born in this book, which disappointed me. ( )

Another delightful addition to the series, Megan's story.

http://ktleyed.blogspot.com/2010/02/secrets-of-highlander-by-janet-chapman.html ( )

Secrets of the Highlander by Janet Chapman is the sixth book of the Highlander series. Previous books dealt with the experiences of highland warriors transported from eleventh and thirteenth century Scotland to modern day Maine. The Scots have blended in and become an important part of modern times during the thirty-five years spent in the modern times. The series includes romance, magic, fantasy.

In this book Megan MacKeage one of the seven daughters of Greylen MacKeage runs into Jack Stone, the father of the baby she is carrying. The last time Megan saw Jack they were in Alaska and he was calling himself Wayne Ferris. At that time when told of her pregnancy, he said he wanted nothing to do with Meagan or the baby and sent her back to Maine.

Jack is now the town police chief, returned to claim Megan’s heart in the midst of solving a number of mysteries. I’ll leave it to the reader to decide how many. I read the book and I am not quite sure. I think I would have preferred fewer story lines and a little more depth. There are many books that could be written about these Scots and their descendents, I look forward to the next one, ( )