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Sedonia #1
The Princess and Her Pirate
Princess Tatiana needs a groom to help her rule her vulnerable country. So she embarks on a desperate mission -- traveling in disguise to a neighboring land to forge an alliance with the dashing Cairn MacTavish, the fabled "Pirate Lord." But instead of a marriage, a rude welcome awaits the brave, beautiful royal when she is accused of being a common thief -- and is taken captive by the rogue she had meant to wed! Not since his adventurous days on the high seas has MacTavish felt the sort of excitement this gorgeous hellion inspires. He knows she is hiding something -- and each claim of innocence that comes from her lush, inviting lips only inflames his desire for a kiss...and for the passionate night that will inevitably follow. Yet a past betrayal is still fresh in MacTavish's memory, and he dares not trust his heart. Now he vows to learn this mystery woman's secrets...even if he has to seduce her to do it.
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 24, 2003
About the author
Lois Greiman
82 books294 followersBorn on a North Dakota cattle ranch, Lois Greiman graduated from a high school class of sixty students before moving to Minnesota where she professionally trained and showed Arabian Horses for several years. Since that time she's been a high fashion model, a fitness instructor, and a veterinary assistant. But an incurable case of writing fever put a stop to all those occupations.
Since selling her first book to Avon in 1992, she has sold twelve other historical romance novels, most of which are set in medieval Scotland and involve her very popular Forbes clan. In an attempt to pursue her love of humor, Ms. Greiman has also recently sold three romantic comedies to Harlequin Enterprises.
While caring for three children, fifteen horses, and a menagerie of pets on her small farm in Minnesota, Ms. Greiman writes full time, producing two or three novels a year and garnering much praise from readers and reviewers alike. Affaire de Coeur called HIGHLAND WOLF "magnificent." Romantic Times proclaimed LADY AND THE KNIGHT"...pure magic." Christina Dodd proclaims "Lois Greiman delivers....The Fraser Bride offers delightful characters, breathless adventure."
Her Highland novels have received Affaire de Couer's Critic's Choice Award, Romantic Times K.I.S.S. Award, and been nominated for Romance Writer's of America's prestigious Rita. Her titles have appeared on Barnes and Nobles Best Selling Romance list and won her the Midwest Fiction Writer's Rising Star Award.
Since selling her first book to Avon in 1992, she has sold twelve other historical romance novels, most of which are set in medieval Scotland and involve her very popular Forbes clan. In an attempt to pursue her love of humor, Ms. Greiman has also recently sold three romantic comedies to Harlequin Enterprises.
While caring for three children, fifteen horses, and a menagerie of pets on her small farm in Minnesota, Ms. Greiman writes full time, producing two or three novels a year and garnering much praise from readers and reviewers alike. Affaire de Coeur called HIGHLAND WOLF "magnificent." Romantic Times proclaimed LADY AND THE KNIGHT"...pure magic." Christina Dodd proclaims "Lois Greiman delivers....The Fraser Bride offers delightful characters, breathless adventure."
Her Highland novels have received Affaire de Couer's Critic's Choice Award, Romantic Times K.I.S.S. Award, and been nominated for Romance Writer's of America's prestigious Rita. Her titles have appeared on Barnes and Nobles Best Selling Romance list and won her the Midwest Fiction Writer's Rising Star Award.
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August 19, 2011
His penis is its own character. Enough said.
January 26, 2014
Fun romance between a laird/pirate and an undercover princess. The plot was ok but the writing and characterizations were great. Definitely recommend if you're in the mood for a low-angst, fun historical.
February 11, 2013
Seeking an alliance to help her country Tatiana travels to a neighboring land to seek their Lord as her husband. She travels incognito and then is mistaken for a thief by the man she plans to marry!
October 26, 2022
Rating: Meh / 5
Kind of stupid.
Kind of forced.
Lost interest.
DNF.
Moving on.
Kind of stupid.
Kind of forced.
Lost interest.
DNF.
Moving on.
January 7, 2012
Rated 3.5
June 6, 2022
FIRST OF ALL IT TOOK ME A YEAR AND A HALF TO READ THIS.
but my kid picked this out for me so I felt like I had to finish it, ya know.
1. His cock has a name and he had like conversations with it in his head. I am not a cock haver, maybe this is normal?
2. He's the laird/lord/king of this island? But also a pirate. Ok?
3. She's 18 and decides to put a look-alike on her throne so she can come meet him and decide if an alliance with their kingdoms (?) Via marriage is agreeable. But then gets robbed and mistaken for a theif
3a. This is the most "romance reasons " set up for a book I've ever encountered
3b. The (?) Is because they call him laird. But he seems to be effectively a king. Maybe that normal?
3c. 0 concern through the book about what is happening in her home country with (likely the theif she was mistaken for) on her throne
3d the order of succession for her kingdom is super sus. Her mother was a dutchess and she's a princess and she's the sovereign? Make it make sense.
4.🔥 there is on page sex but it took forever to get there was riddled with euphemisms and then they do it again and it's not on page? That's literally the only reason I'm here guys.
5.she was stripped naked so many times wtf
6. It was a little rapey
7. Their banter sucked
8. I was more invested in what was going on between his bodyguard and her urchin friend gem but not enough to see if they have a book.
Anyway. That's done.
but my kid picked this out for me so I felt like I had to finish it, ya know.
1. His cock has a name and he had like conversations with it in his head. I am not a cock haver, maybe this is normal?
2. He's the laird/lord/king of this island? But also a pirate. Ok?
3. She's 18 and decides to put a look-alike on her throne so she can come meet him and decide if an alliance with their kingdoms (?) Via marriage is agreeable. But then gets robbed and mistaken for a theif
3a. This is the most "romance reasons " set up for a book I've ever encountered
3b. The (?) Is because they call him laird. But he seems to be effectively a king. Maybe that normal?
3c. 0 concern through the book about what is happening in her home country with (likely the theif she was mistaken for) on her throne
3d the order of succession for her kingdom is super sus. Her mother was a dutchess and she's a princess and she's the sovereign? Make it make sense.
4.🔥 there is on page sex but it took forever to get there was riddled with euphemisms and then they do it again and it's not on page? That's literally the only reason I'm here guys.
5.she was stripped naked so many times wtf
6. It was a little rapey
7. Their banter sucked
8. I was more invested in what was going on between his bodyguard and her urchin friend gem but not enough to see if they have a book.
Anyway. That's done.
January 14, 2025
This either did not age well or it's always been trash and I was too young in 2003 to read these so I have no frame of reference.
Tatiana goes to Scotland, gets mistaken for someone else, spends THE ENTIRE BOOK pretending she's a third person that doesn't exist, get harassed and molested by men so often that it's not even funny, tries to escape several times and gets stuck in stupid situations instead of getting the f out of here, finally fucks the hot Scot, who eventually realises she wasn't who he thought she was and kinda wants to marry her because actually, she's quite hot and she's a princess so why not.
Tedious. Boring. Skippable. Never again.
Tatiana goes to Scotland, gets mistaken for someone else, spends THE ENTIRE BOOK pretending she's a third person that doesn't exist, get harassed and molested by men so often that it's not even funny, tries to escape several times and gets stuck in stupid situations instead of getting the f out of here, finally fucks the hot Scot, who eventually realises she wasn't who he thought she was and kinda wants to marry her because actually, she's quite hot and she's a princess so why not.
Tedious. Boring. Skippable. Never again.
February 12, 2018
Well. I was in the mood for a light read but this story was so ridiculously stupid, and made no sense from start to finish. The title says the hero is a pirate, but he seems to be a merchant. He has given his penis a name. Honestly.
April 19, 2026
Like almost no smut and the plot was so ridiculous. The cover is the best part about this book
January 22, 2012
Like a clergyman waking up in a seedy strip club, I have no idea how or why I found myself reading this highland romance. The Scottish Highlands, Texas ranches, Greek yachts, Arab harems are places I fear to tread.
No wonder I found myself completely lost in the narrative. For most of the book I wasn't sure if I was reading fairy-tale fantasy or historical romance masked with a few fictional place names.
The quality of Ms Greiman's writing gives impetus to the narrative, but the story demands complete suspension of disbelief (hence the suspicion that this was intended as a fairy-tale romance). The princess of one fictional country travels incognito to another fictional country to forge an alliance by marrying a laird with an evil reputation. Within minutes of landing on the laird's island she's under arrest, shuffling between the laird's dungeons and prisons and his bed chambers. Meanwhile, the piratical laird metamorphoses into a criminal interrogator and the battle of wits and heavy breathing begins.
I surprised myself by reading this book through to the end, and even taking a quick peek at the second volume in the series, which is tied very closely to the events in the first.
Even though I enjoyed The Princess and Her Pirate, it confirmed my aversion (there's a paradox for you!) to this particular sub-genre and probably explains why I abandoned The Princess Masquerade part-way through.
No wonder I found myself completely lost in the narrative. For most of the book I wasn't sure if I was reading fairy-tale fantasy or historical romance masked with a few fictional place names.
The quality of Ms Greiman's writing gives impetus to the narrative, but the story demands complete suspension of disbelief (hence the suspicion that this was intended as a fairy-tale romance). The princess of one fictional country travels incognito to another fictional country to forge an alliance by marrying a laird with an evil reputation. Within minutes of landing on the laird's island she's under arrest, shuffling between the laird's dungeons and prisons and his bed chambers. Meanwhile, the piratical laird metamorphoses into a criminal interrogator and the battle of wits and heavy breathing begins.
I surprised myself by reading this book through to the end, and even taking a quick peek at the second volume in the series, which is tied very closely to the events in the first.
Even though I enjoyed The Princess and Her Pirate, it confirmed my aversion (there's a paradox for you!) to this particular sub-genre and probably explains why I abandoned The Princess Masquerade part-way through.
May 1, 2016
Princess Tatiana Octavia Linnet Rocheneau of Sedonia comes in disguise to Teleere in order to observe the Laird Cairn MacTavish in order to see who he really is before she will send a marriage proposal. She barely sets foot on the shores before she is accosted by none other than the Laird himself. He accuses her of being a well known thief Megs no matter how much she denies it. She doesn't tell him who she really is and he wouldn't have believed her anyway. Tatiana is about to learn more about the seedy underbelly of Teleere than she ever could have imagined.
Between Cairn's extreme stubbornness and distrust and Tatiana's never even attempting to reveal who she is until pretty much the end of the book caused me some fury at points. There was lots of interesting side characters and even a small assassination plot line. It would have been a bit better if the author had spent slightly less time on making Cairn accuse Tatiana of being the thief Megs over and over and maybe actually worked in a little more information on the assassination plot. In the end the main plot was all resolved very quickly while still leaving unsolved subplots. (hopefully resolved in the other 2 books?) But I enjoyed it and it was still good so I will read the next book.
Between Cairn's extreme stubbornness and distrust and Tatiana's never even attempting to reveal who she is until pretty much the end of the book caused me some fury at points. There was lots of interesting side characters and even a small assassination plot line. It would have been a bit better if the author had spent slightly less time on making Cairn accuse Tatiana of being the thief Megs over and over and maybe actually worked in a little more information on the assassination plot. In the end the main plot was all resolved very quickly while still leaving unsolved subplots. (hopefully resolved in the other 2 books?) But I enjoyed it and it was still good so I will read the next book.
August 9, 2016
Terrible. I can't expect much, I just wanted something quick and mindless to read and I got exactly that. But really the plot had so many holes in it and most of the characters weren't real enough. There were some funny moments, the most of it dragged on and I found myself skimming pages. This is my second attempt at reading a romance novel and I am again disappointed, I don't know what people see in them.
June 5, 2016
So back in 2002 I gave this five stars, but no I would give it only 2. My tastes have clearly changed! I enjoyed the mistaken identity plot, but hated that he would constantly threaten rape and torture if she didn't answer his questions, then keep getting pissy when he didn't like her answers. It was repetitive and quite old! He did grovel nicely at the end, but the story just didn't grip me like it used to.
June 2, 2014
The only reason I picked up this book is because someone told me the pirate's penis talks! It does have its own internal dialog but only for one page out of a grueling 300+(?) pages of pure, unadulterated crap. You know, typical romance.
January 16, 2011
Pretty good read, though I thought it was rather drawn out.
January 14, 2011
Wasn't as fun as I thought it would be
Did Not Finish
July 9, 2018Abandoned ship at 45%. Heroine is too stupid to live and the hero is too rapey.
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