"Did you get a good look at her, then?" he added in a rush.Alec nodded."You'll be taking her with you, won't you?" The Kincaid stared at the old man a long minute before answering."Aye, Beak. I'll be taking her with me." An absolute must read for any Garwood fans! Quite simply a treasure of a historical romance. If you can get ahold of the audio, this is one of the better narrators I've heard as well. If not, the story stands on it's own, a masterpiece set in the Scottish Highlands.This is the very best of this author...and she has written many keepers. The Bride seems to have every wonderful aspect that Garwood is known for. Jamie is innocent...a typical heroine for the times, and an trait that gets her into some amusing trouble. Despiter her naivete, however, she is truly one of the most kind and tenderhearted of women, placing everyone's needs over her own. Those she loves, she gives her all. There is nothing self serving or proud about her. She goes from being a practical slave to her father and sisters to trying to find her place amid the Highlanders and their land, a way of life that is completely foreign to her. "She'll settle in...At times, my heart just broke for her, as Alec takes a long time to see what his wife truly needs from him is a place to belong. He sees right off that he wants her...king's decree or not, he definitely wants her. And yet he's so very much a Laird...immovable, stubborn, overbearing, and pompous. Good thing he's also fair and compassionate (to a point). He's determined to get this marriage thing over with, and move on with his life. But this gentle, silly English woman with her strange English ideals and her stubbornness arrive at his home and completely uproots him.Alec's life is even more uprooted than Jamie's is...and she's the one who moved to a new country :D:D:D My favorite thing about this book is it's unpredictability. Most romance books are so formulaic...meet, dislike each other, form an attachment, have sex, HUGE CONFLICT, resolution, make up, the end. I didn't get that same feeling here. There were constant new developments, and each one was absolute perfection. Sure, there are some tropes, but this is the kind of book that created the trope, or at the very least defines it. This was a fun, sexy look into the life of two stubborn yet charming character's lives after the reluctant vows are said. They are resigned to their marriage and just working at falling in love. Jamie's goofy and sassy, shoving her way into Alec's heart. Alec is grudging, powerful, but still somewhat of a pushover with her. "By what name is she called, Kincaid?""Mine.”
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