My Heart's in the Highlands by Angeline Fortin (best english novels for beginners .TXT) 📗

his foreheadagainst hers. “Mikah, my fair Hero, fate has played us cruelly butwe have another chance that I won’t let slip away. You aremine.”

Mikah smiled at that, offering withconviction, “Yes, I am.”

Kissing her tenderly, Jace drew back a halfstep. “Perhaps this will help … or give us even more to explain.”He held up the ring he had retrieved from his pocket. The diamondswinked up at them in approval. “Twice you have a father who mightdeliver me my heart’s desire with a haste I have come toappreciate. I love you, Mikah, whatever your name. I have alwaysloved you. Marry me.”

Releasing a huff of laughter, Mikah wrappedher hand around his. Around the ring. “That would really stop themin their tracks, wouldn’t it? What will they say to me marrying aman I could possibly have known for only two weeks?”

“Probably the same thing my mother will say,”Jace said. “But that isn’t an answer. Are you going to keep me onpins and needles again?”

“Never,” she said, leaning in to kiss him.“No pins. No needles.”

“Is that a yes?”

“Yes …” Mikah grinned wickedly, “Ian.”

Jace rolled his eyes with a painful groan,but slid the ring that had been on her right hand hours ago ontoher left ring finger, sealing it with a kiss. “It fits.”

“I’m glad. I never got to wear it before,”she whispered, raising her hand to his cheek. “We’ll have more thistime.”

“So much more,” he promised, drawing Mikahinto his arms and kissing her passionately until they werebreathless and clinging to each other once again.

A loud, insistent knocking at the door drewthem apart, and Jace took her hand in his, squeezing it assuredly.“Shall we?”

Mikah nodded, her nervousness gone, and Jaceled her to the door, but Mikah paused with her hand on the handle,smiling up at him mischievously. “Earl of what?” she whispered,eyes dancing. “I should at least know that, don’t you think?”

Jace’s eyes crinkled merrily and his dimplesflashed as his laughter filled the room.

“Are you just going to stand there laughingor are you going to let us in?” Sean Bauer’s voice rang from thehall, and Mikah joined Jace’s mirth, chuckling happily as sheopened the door.

Author’s Notes

I hope you enjoyed this story about Hero andIan as well as Mikah and Jace. I realize that it stretches thetypical time travel genre in an unusual manner but I always thoughtit might be interesting to present a love story that had been cutshort and give those lovers a second chance to meet again. To fallin love again, remembering everything that had happened to themonce before.

Dun Cuilean is modeled after the realScottish castle of Culzean. It is a lovely castle that sits, justas Cuilean, on a cliff overlooking the Firth of Clyde in Ayr. Thedetails of the renovation by Adam follow closely to Culzean’s truestory. Though Culzean is not a bed and breakfast, it can be rentedfor weddings and meetings and there are tours available as well. Ifyou are interested in knowing more, you can visit the castle’swebsite at http://www.culzeanexperience.org/.

I like to use real places in my storiesrather than entirely fabricated ones. You can visit them on theInternet and see them for yourself. In this case you can imagineMikah at GoMA or at the Milwaukee Art Museum. That amazing buildingis what inspired me to make Mikah from Milwaukee. If you ever havethe opportunity to visit, you won’t be disappointed. The museumalso hosts an art festival each summer for those of you interestedin supporting artists of all sorts. You can check them out at:http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/our-museums/goma/Pages/home.aspxor http://mam.org/.

Please let me know what you think! I alwayswelcome your comments and feedback.

About the Author

Angeline was born in International Falls,Minnesota, the second of six children. As a child, her family movedfrequently around the country allowing her to experience thecustoms of many different regions.

After earning a degree in the U.S. Historyfrom the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Angeline decided to gowhere the oldest history in the US was and moved to Yorktown,Virginia, where she worked as a historical interpreter at ColonialWilliamsburg.

It was there that she also met her husbandwho was in the Navy and stationed at Norfolk. Angeline has twochildren as well as two stepsons. Once they were older and moreself-sufficient, Angeline seized the opportunity to take up herfirst love and continued to work on the romances she had begun incollege.

Angeline is a life-long lover of history andromances. Her first books began the saga of the MacKintosh clan inher Questions for a Highlander series and she also writes in thegenres of time travel romance, contemporary romance and YAfiction.

You can follow her on Twitter@angelinefortin or on Facebook.

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