Child Of The Mist by Kathleen Morgan is the beginning of the 'These Highland Hills' Trilogy, and a well written book--and not what i expected. The heroine, Anne MacGregor, is a suspected witch who finds her self unexpectedly hand-fasted to the tanist soon to be chieftain, Niall Campbell to stop bloodshed between two of the fighting clans.
I normally don't like widowed hero's because i don't like the idea of a man whose meant to be mourning his late wife but is now in love with someone else. so i kinda question the solidarity of his love for Anne. But he does say he has never loved anyone like this--which i was kinda happy about, because i didn't want Anne playing second fiddle to Nialls first wife.
I found myself wondering at first how she could fall in love with Niall so quickly-but the author explains this--Anne and Niall feel like magnets-drawn to each other--and Niall is such a deep dude...he is like...DUDDEEE. He is never violent to her, and he shows his vulnerability to her--something he never has shown anyone before.
I think his love for Annie number 2 (his first wife's name was Anne as well :/) better, or had found his true soul mate in her who could match up to him and talk to him on the same level.
Anne is like kick ass--her 'witchcraft isn't really witchcraft but she is a person(i really dont know the name) who collects herbs and plants and use them as medicine--so a herbal doctor? and she is mistaken as a witch when she breaths life back into a baby who's umbilical cord is choking her.
The book all in all is good, well written novel--but at times i didn't feel a connection between the leads-when i read the back of the book i was expecting something else--but neither the less it was still good-and i probably will read the follow up books.
3.5 Stars.