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Highland Guard #1-3
Les chevaliers des Highland Tomes 1-3
Comte de Carrick et seigneur d'Annandale, Robert Bruce revendique le trône d'Ecosse. Or, pour vaincre les Anglais, il lui faut des mercenaires d'élite. Des Highlanders prêts à se battre pour sa cause. Comme Tor MacLeod, force de la nature, dévoué à son clan. Erik MacSorley, marin d'élite de la garde secrète de Bruce. Ou encore Arthur Campbell, surnommé la Vigie pour ses talents d'éclaireur.
Les trois premiers tomes des Chevaliers des Highlands sont ici réunis en un volume.
Les trois premiers tomes des Chevaliers des Highlands sont ici réunis en un volume.
- GenresHistorical Romance
862 pages, Paperback
First published October 5, 2016
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About the author
Monica McCarty
61 books2,971 followersWhat do you get when you mix a legal career, a baseball career, motherhood, and a love of history with a voracious reader? In my case, a Historical Romance Author.
Like most writers, I’ve always loved to read. Growing up in California there was always plenty to do outside, but all too often I could be found inside curled up with a book (or two or three). I started with the usual fare: The Little House on the Prairie series, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, Watership Down, Nancy Drew, and everything by Judy Blume. Once I cleared off my bookshelf, I started swiping books from my mom. Some, like Sidney Sheldon’s The Other Side of Midnight, probably weren’t the most appropriate choice for a pre-adolescent—although they were definitely illuminating. I can still remember the look of abject horror on my mom’s Catholic-girl-face when I asked her what a virgin was. After that rather brief conversation, she paid a little closer attention to what had disappeared off her book shelf, and steered me in the direction of Harlequin and Barbara Cartland romances. I was hooked. I quickly read through the inventory of the local library and was soon buying bags of romances at garage sales.
In high school, with the encouragement of my father (who I think was a little concerned about the steady diet of romances), I read over eighty of the Franklin Library’s One Hundred Greatest Books ever written—including Tolstoy, Confucius, Plato, and the entire works of Shakespeare. Some of them were tough going for a teenager, but the experience would prove an invaluable foundation for college. After reading War and Peace, I wasn’t easily intimidated.
For some reason Monica decided to go into writing and not fashion.
After graduation, I loaded up the VW (Jetta not Bus) and trekked down I-5 to attend the University of Southern California, majoring in Political Science and minoring in English (see why all that reading helped!). I joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and when I wasn’t studying or at football games, did my best to support the local bartending industry. Ah, the good old days.
With that kind of fun, four years of college wasn’t quite enough. So leaving Tommy Trojan behind, I traveled back up north to Palo Alto for three more years of study at Stanford Law School. Once I survived the stress of the first semester, law school proved to be one of the best times of my life—garnering me a JD, life-long friends, a husband, and an unexpectedly intimate knowledge of baseball. (See “The Baseball Odyssey” below).
Law School was also where I fell in love with Scotland. In my third year, I took a Comparative Legal History class, and wrote a paper on the Scottish Clan System and Feudalism. So I immediately dropped out of law school and went on to write Scottish Historical Romances…well no, not quite. You see, I always knew I wanted to be a lawyer. My father was a lawyer, I was a “poet” (i.e., not into math), and I love to argue. It seemed natural.
So I finished law school, got married, passed the CA bar, moved to Minnesota (with a few stops along the way), waived into the MN bar, worked as a litigator for a few satisfying years, moved back to CA, had a couple of kids, realized that a legal career and being a single parent for most of the year (due to husband's career) would be extremely difficult, and THEN decided to sit down and write.
And how did I end up writing romance? It’s not as divergent as it seems. What I loved about being a lawyer are the same things I love about being a writer—research and writing. The only thing missing is the arguing, but that’s what a husband and kids are for, right?
Like most writers, I’ve always loved to read. Growing up in California there was always plenty to do outside, but all too often I could be found inside curled up with a book (or two or three). I started with the usual fare: The Little House on the Prairie series, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, Watership Down, Nancy Drew, and everything by Judy Blume. Once I cleared off my bookshelf, I started swiping books from my mom. Some, like Sidney Sheldon’s The Other Side of Midnight, probably weren’t the most appropriate choice for a pre-adolescent—although they were definitely illuminating. I can still remember the look of abject horror on my mom’s Catholic-girl-face when I asked her what a virgin was. After that rather brief conversation, she paid a little closer attention to what had disappeared off her book shelf, and steered me in the direction of Harlequin and Barbara Cartland romances. I was hooked. I quickly read through the inventory of the local library and was soon buying bags of romances at garage sales.
In high school, with the encouragement of my father (who I think was a little concerned about the steady diet of romances), I read over eighty of the Franklin Library’s One Hundred Greatest Books ever written—including Tolstoy, Confucius, Plato, and the entire works of Shakespeare. Some of them were tough going for a teenager, but the experience would prove an invaluable foundation for college. After reading War and Peace, I wasn’t easily intimidated.
For some reason Monica decided to go into writing and not fashion.
After graduation, I loaded up the VW (Jetta not Bus) and trekked down I-5 to attend the University of Southern California, majoring in Political Science and minoring in English (see why all that reading helped!). I joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and when I wasn’t studying or at football games, did my best to support the local bartending industry. Ah, the good old days.
With that kind of fun, four years of college wasn’t quite enough. So leaving Tommy Trojan behind, I traveled back up north to Palo Alto for three more years of study at Stanford Law School. Once I survived the stress of the first semester, law school proved to be one of the best times of my life—garnering me a JD, life-long friends, a husband, and an unexpectedly intimate knowledge of baseball. (See “The Baseball Odyssey” below).
Law School was also where I fell in love with Scotland. In my third year, I took a Comparative Legal History class, and wrote a paper on the Scottish Clan System and Feudalism. So I immediately dropped out of law school and went on to write Scottish Historical Romances…well no, not quite. You see, I always knew I wanted to be a lawyer. My father was a lawyer, I was a “poet” (i.e., not into math), and I love to argue. It seemed natural.
So I finished law school, got married, passed the CA bar, moved to Minnesota (with a few stops along the way), waived into the MN bar, worked as a litigator for a few satisfying years, moved back to CA, had a couple of kids, realized that a legal career and being a single parent for most of the year (due to husband's career) would be extremely difficult, and THEN decided to sit down and write.
And how did I end up writing romance? It’s not as divergent as it seems. What I loved about being a lawyer are the same things I love about being a writer—research and writing. The only thing missing is the arguing, but that’s what a husband and kids are for, right?
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February 23, 2017
2,5 || Ce livre comprend les trois premiers tomes de la saga Les Chevaliers des Highlands. Pour l'ensemble des tomes je note 2,5.
De manière générale j'ai préféré le premier tome.
Je peux dans un premier temps dire qu'en voyant le titre je m'attendais à beaucoup plus d'action (sauf si l'on considère les scènes de sexe; qui représentent 70% du livre comme de l'action; et dans ce cas oui il y a de l'action
.)
Les trois tomes reprennent
exactement
le même schéma: le grand guerrier musclé et sexy sans peur ni faille qui tombe amoureux d'une "Lady" alors qu'il ne devrait pas; que d'habitude les filles ne représentent qu'un passe-temps pour lui; blah blah blah et inversement: la Lady aux seins parfaits ne peux pas tomber amoureuse d'un homme si mystérieux et ténébreux, blah blah blah.
C'était cul cul plan plan mais rapide à lire; l'action (quand elle est présente) est bien menée, j'aurai aimé que celle-ci soit mise plus en avant. Le plus intéressant était finalement les notes de l'auteur concernant ses recherches sur l'époque et les faits qu'elle a gardé comme tels ou modifiés.
Je ne sais pas si je lirai la suite.
De manière générale j'ai préféré le premier tome.
Je peux dans un premier temps dire qu'en voyant le titre je m'attendais à beaucoup plus d'action (
Les trois tomes reprennent
C'était cul cul plan plan mais rapide à lire; l'action (
Je ne sais pas si je lirai la suite.
December 28, 2021
5 ÉTOILES JE M’EN FICHE DE VOS AVIS !
Cette série de livres me fait KIFFER. Il n’y a pas d’autres mots. J’aime beaucoup trop la romance historique pour ses clichés, ses répétitions, ses chevaliers, ses demoiselles en détresse, mariages de convenance, aspects fleur bleue… Bref, ces trois premiers tomes regroupent tout ça.
Je ne saurais dire lequel est mon préféré mais étonnement, même si le schéma est bien souvent similaire, je les ai trouvés assez différents. Tor le grand chef, impitoyable, froid et implacable ; MacSorley, le pirate jovial, intelligent et libre ; Arthur Campbell le chevalier discret et fidèle.
Alors oui, ce ne sont pas LES livres, objectivement ils ne sont pas EXTRAORDINAIRES, ce ne sont pas des chefs-d’œuvre, c’est même parfois un peu gnangan ! Mais je suis carrément (complètement) fan ! J’ai pris un tel plaisir à les lire, un tel plaisir à les découvrir. On se prend au jeu rapidement. Ce sont les histoires parfaites pour la période actuelle (pleine de grisaille) et surtout quand on a besoin d’un petit livre doudou qui saura nous ravir. Entre Christina et sa timidité jusqu’à Anna et son franc parlé, les personnages ont su me plaire. Je ne parle pas des protagonistes masculins ! Mais le cocktail était vraiment plaisant, d’autant que le côté historique, puisqu’on suit une vraie chronologie, était vraiment intéressant. Pour vous dire, ça m’a même aidée pour un partiel, lol.
Bref, malheureusement J’ai Lu ne compte pas publier la suite pour l’instant, mais elle est disponible sur France Loisirs ainsi qu’en ebook !
Cette série de livres me fait KIFFER. Il n’y a pas d’autres mots. J’aime beaucoup trop la romance historique pour ses clichés, ses répétitions, ses chevaliers, ses demoiselles en détresse, mariages de convenance, aspects fleur bleue… Bref, ces trois premiers tomes regroupent tout ça.
Je ne saurais dire lequel est mon préféré mais étonnement, même si le schéma est bien souvent similaire, je les ai trouvés assez différents. Tor le grand chef, impitoyable, froid et implacable ; MacSorley, le pirate jovial, intelligent et libre ; Arthur Campbell le chevalier discret et fidèle.
Alors oui, ce ne sont pas LES livres, objectivement ils ne sont pas EXTRAORDINAIRES, ce ne sont pas des chefs-d’œuvre, c’est même parfois un peu gnangan ! Mais je suis carrément (complètement) fan ! J’ai pris un tel plaisir à les lire, un tel plaisir à les découvrir. On se prend au jeu rapidement. Ce sont les histoires parfaites pour la période actuelle (pleine de grisaille) et surtout quand on a besoin d’un petit livre doudou qui saura nous ravir. Entre Christina et sa timidité jusqu’à Anna et son franc parlé, les personnages ont su me plaire. Je ne parle pas des protagonistes masculins ! Mais le cocktail était vraiment plaisant, d’autant que le côté historique, puisqu’on suit une vraie chronologie, était vraiment intéressant. Pour vous dire, ça m’a même aidée pour un partiel, lol.
Bref, malheureusement J’ai Lu ne compte pas publier la suite pour l’instant, mais elle est disponible sur France Loisirs ainsi qu’en ebook !
November 27, 2020
L'Ecosse. Des Highlander. De l'amour. Bref, que demander de plus. J'ai vraiment adoré le premier tome et je suis très curieuse de découvrir un peut plus les autres personnages de cette joyeuse troupe!
February 3, 2024
J’ai vraiment aimé cette série écossaise
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