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Setting: Early 16th century Scotland, with some scenes in present day New Orleans
Series?: Yes, this is book 1, published in 1999, of Moning’s Highlander series, of which 8 books are in print.
Hero and Heroine: The Hawk Douglas, 16th century Laird of Dalkeith-Upon-the-Sea, “legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir”, “sculpted of molten steel” (an early Terminator prototype? Maybe — this is a time travel story), and Adrienne de Simone, 20th century misandrist, late of a deceitful, abusive relationship with “catch of the decade” Eberhard Darrow Garret, who, unfortunately, was merely using her as a drug mule (don’t you hate it when that happens?).
Plot: Hero falls in love with heroine. Heroine resists hero. In an interesting twist (which does not, alas, make her motivation any less unbelievable), she’s the one who has sworn off everyone “beautiful” of the opposite sex. Various evil, but luckily quite inept, baddies attempt to keep them apart.
