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A Highland legend, an ancient curse, and a dangerous love . . .
Scandal nearly destroyed Christina Blackburn when she posed for a provocative painting that shocked Victorian Scotland. Years later, a widow and antiquarian for the National Museum, she hides her beauty and her past behind prim spectacles and cool reserve. Sent to a Highland estate to authenticate an Arthurian site, she encounters the infamous painting, owned by handsome, compelling Sir Aedan MacBride of Dundrennan, who intends to build a government road through the site even if the museum tries to stop him.
Laird, civil engineer, and avowed bachelor, Aedan is fascinated by the painting depicting a legendary Dundrennan princess, yet dismisses its curse, which forbids his line from marrying for love. When he meets the painting’s model, the prim scholar determined to halt his plans, she challenges his beliefs—and his heart.
Ancient Highland secrets, Arthuriana, and threats collide as Christina and Aedan unravel the mystery of a long-ago love—and the curse that could ruin all...
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Thank you for visiting my website! I write historical romance and mainstream historical fiction mostly set in Scotland, stories inspired by my love of Scotland and all things Scottish . . . as well as my love of history as an academically trained historian who absolutely loves writing stories with heart and hope and authenticity, and who, well, just loves to write.
If you’re drawn to stories set in Scotland, you’re in the right place. If you love strong, compelling heroes with a touch of reserve or a dark secret to keep, men of deep intelligence who keep their power under wraps and shield their hearts, men who care about women, you’ll find them in my stories.
If you love seeing such heroes find true love and healing with women who have the strength of will, the compassion, the independence, and the gifts to challenge and match such heroes, you’ll find them here. And if you love stories that conjure a historical time and place with authenticity and wrap adventure, romance, courage, and resolution together in a great, fun story–you just might love my books. I hope you do!
Browse around, enjoy the gorgeous covers, and check out my books and series set in various times in Scottish history – medieval, Tudor, Jacobite, Regency, and Victorian so far – and try some excerpts. In addition to writing historical romance as Susan King, I also write mainstream historical fiction as Susan Fraser King, including the story of the real historical Lady Macbeth (my deep research reveals a young woman very different from Shakespeare’s lady!).
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