Book 36: Heat of the Knight

TITLE: Heat of the Knight
AUTHOR: Jackie Ivie
STARTED: July 8, 2008
FINISHED: July 14, 2008
PAGES: 383
GENRE: Romance

FIRST SENTENCE: He remembered the smell... the feel; just about everything.

SUMMARY: [From barnesandnoble.com] In 1747 Scotland, treachery looms as battle lines run deep between the proud, struggling clans and the Highland Rangers who torment them. Here a young widow fights to save her honor-and her life.

Since Lisle MacHugh lost her husband in battle, her clan has barely survived. Now, the MacHughs can reverse their ill fortune if they agree to give Lisle's hand in marriage to their greatest enemy: the notorious Black Monteith.

The wealthy Langston Leed Monteith, aka the Black Monteith, has returned to Scotland after years of banishment. With his father's misdeeds leaving the family name in tatters, no decent lass will marry him. But when Monteith sets eyes upon the fiery Lisle, he knows he must have her...

Once wed, Lisle resists her fierce attraction to the man she loathes. But she has found her match in Monteith, who introduces her to pleasures she never dreamed possible. When their secrets are revealed, Lisle and Monteith will confront their greatest challenge, testing their union as husband and wife.

THOUGHTS: Ivie will never be able to top Lady of the Knight. This book was just a plain mess. There was a basis of something good (I want to galavant around the castle) but the rest was just a muddle of poorly planned plot and flat characters. Worst of all, it just ends. It stops. There is no real resolution to the bulk of the story. I believe I actually uttered, "Dude?" at the end. Not worth it.

RATING: 3/10 [Poor, lost interest]