Healing the Highlander Review
“Healing the Highlander” is Melissa Mayhue’s 7th book in her Daughters of the Glen series. Once again Mayhue has done another great story, with a great couple. As I was not crazy about Leah in the previous books, that totally changed when she left McQuarrie Keep, to help save her ‘grandparents’. Then she met Drew and I really began to like Leah. They certainly made great soul mates.
The story begins with Drew Macalister living with excruciating pain caused by an old wound, but when he rescues Leah Noble McQuarrie, he has no idea how much his life is about to change. Leah hates anything Fae, after being tortured by the Naudians to do their bidding, as she is a descendant of the Fae, and has the power to heal. Leah denies her heritage and her magical healing abilities, but is determined to find a way to help her grandfather who is being held captive.
It was a very good story, different, but the same concept. They meet accidentally, they fall in love, they fight the attraction, adventure & danger, they get saved and live happily ever after. Lol I did enjoy it.
The storyline with Moreland was good, he knew she was the MacQuarrie girl he was looking for. Getting to see Sallie, Ran and family was nice. Going back to Dun Ard was great, though we didn’t see Colin until the end. Of course he is the next book, and he looks like he has the most power of any male Highlander.
At times it was frustrating that though they were very much in love, neither would admit it, and Drew, not knowing what was involved, just wanted to use her to heal him. But of course, he really did love her. Though I understood why Blane would not offer to send help for her grandparents, what would they have expected from her. Even though she was foolish to expect old Moreland to bargain with her, she only thought of the family who took care of her and whom she loved. Nice to see Sim and Dair, though we did not get too much.
As much as I enjoyed the book, and the pairing of Leah and Drew, I was disappointed that we did not get to see all the Scotland family at the end, like Mayhue has done with most of her books. We did get to see Drew become laird of MacQuarrie, and that is why things changed when Robbie went back to Scotland and saw the castle well taken care of, which had been different when he had checked years earlier. All because Drew and Leah had control and that altered things. I had hoped we would see Mairi find out what happened to Leah, so she could tell Destiny. Maybe in the next book.
Watch out for a future Highlander books for Peter Moreland, as he redeemed himself at the end, as well as for both Dair and Sim. Surprised she did Malcolm McDowalyt in her next book, Warrior’s Redemption. However, we have been told that Redemption is spinoff series from Daughters. On to Highlander’s Curse.
Barb
