This Scot of Mine (Rogue Files Series #4)

by Sophie Jordan

Overview

A daring deception…

Desperate to escape her vile fiancé, Lady Clara devises a bold lie—that she’s pregnant with another man’s child. With her reputation in tatters, Clara flees to Scotland to live out her days in disgrace, resigned to her fate as a spinster…until she claps eyes on the powerful and wickedly handsome Laird Hunt MacLarin.

She’s the answer to his curse…

Laird of an ancient clan, Hunt needs an heir, but he comes from a long line of men cursed to die before the birth of their firstborn. When the Duke of Autenberry approaches him with a proposition—marry my ruined sister—it seems the perfect solution. Even better, the defiant lass stirs him to his very soul.

No escaping the truth...

Except marriage cannot set them free. No matter how much Hunt desires her. No matter how much Clara burns for him. Soon she is falling for her husband, but is love enough to end the curse? Or is the tragic history of the MacLarin Clan doomed to repeat itself?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062463661
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	03/12/2019
Series:	Rogue Files Series , #4
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	107,562
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Sophie Jordan grew up on a pecan farm in the Texas hill country, where she wove fantasies of dragons, warriors, and princesses. A former high school English teacher, she's also the New York Times bestselling author of Avon historical romances and the Firelight series. She now lives in Houston with her family. When she's not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattes and Diet cherry Coke preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her kids), and cramming her DVR with true-crime and reality-TV shows.

Editorial Reviews

01/28/2019

In Jordan’s satisfying fourth Rogue Files Regency (after The Duke Buys a Bride), a Scottish laird burdened by a family curse tries to avoid death by avoiding love. Lady Clara Autenberry, a duke’s daughter who’s about to marry the dangerous Earl of Rolland, gets out of her betrothal by convincing Rolland she’s pregnant by another man. Her reputation in London now ruined, she moves to her brother’s home in Scotland to live out her life. Her brother’s friend Laird Hunt MacLarin, who becomes infatuated with her after he encounters her in a roadside inn, hears of her situation and thinks it might be the loophole he needs: if she bears another man’s child, he won’t be subject to the curse that kills each Laird MacLarins between when he sires an heir and when the heir is born. He proposes to her, and they marry—but then she confesses that she’s not pregnant after all, and Hunt and Clara must try to find a way to break the curse. The balance of heat and suspense will delight Regency romance readers. Agent: Maura Kye-Casella, Don Congdon Assoc. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

The fourth fast-paced and fun installment in best-selling Jordan’s Rogue Files series is another expertly calibrated mix of vibrantly etched characters and steamy sensuality that will delight both longtime fans and new readers alike.

Booklist

The fourth fast-paced and fun installment in best-selling Jordan’s Rogue Files series is another expertly calibrated mix of vibrantly etched characters and steamy sensuality that will delight both longtime fans and new readers alike.

Booklist

2019-02-04

Superstition meets scandal in the fourth book of Jordan's Rogue Files series (The Me I Meant To Be, 2019, etc.).

By the time Lady Clara Autenberry makes it to her brother's house in Scotland, everyone in London society will know her secret: Clara is pregnant, and the baby is not her fiance's. Though Clara is ruined for life, Laird Hunt MacLarin proposes to marry her for a kooky reason: He's cursed. No man in his family has ever lived to see the birth of his firstborn child. Hunt has bided his time, sleeping with a barren woman who doesn't need a commitment, but when he meets Clara, he knows he wants more. With a curse-free child on the way, Clara can give Hunt the family he's always wanted—at least until he quarantines himself to avoid baby No. 2. But the truth is, there is no baby. Clara lied to her entire family, insisting she'd rather be a spinster than spend the rest of her life with her cruel fiance. When she finds out about the curse, she decides to marry Hunt anyway, get pregnant, and prove to him that the curse isn't real. But the curse makes a believer of Clara when she gets pregnant for real and mysterious accidents start to befall her husband. Hunt didn't exactly agree to die for her, but his fear of his impending doom imbues their romance with a spirit of carpe diem. As with previous books in the series, the Scottish accents and coastal location—complete with dolphins—add texture to the historical setting. A surprising development with Clara's beautiful young lady's companion, Marian, hints at what's to come in the next series installment.

The man in peril is a fun spin on the usual damsel in distress, leading to many heart-pounding moments.

Kirkus Reviews

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