The Enchantment

by Pam Binder

Book Overview

Pam Binder captures a passion that defies the ages in this mesmerizing new novel of love in the glorious Highlands. THE ENCHANTMENT Conor McCloud returns from the Crusades to discover his cousin has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743417941
• ISBN13: 9780743417945
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

An interesting and thought-provoking plot.

Eilan Dougan has a gift. She can read people's thoughts. She sees the gift as a curse because she often sees what shedoesn't want to see and frightens people with her knowledge. Shealso has headaches... and has been told by a doctor that she hasa tumor and will die. Eilan goes to Seattle to mind her parents'antique shop while they are away, and one day, a bloodyhighlander in a kilt appears in the shop amid the chiming ofevery clock in the store. He is big and intimidating andarmed... and asks her if she is the Peacemaker. This was hernickname in college, and she is so frightened by the combinationof events that she sends this man to jail. But when shegoes home that night, she researches the existence of aPeacemaker legend in her mother's extensive library. When shefinds one in a book of Scottish legends, she goes to a lawyer andgets Conor released. While he explores the wonders of 21stcentury life (like football and pizza) she grapples with hisdemand that she go back to his time with him. After muchthought, she accedes. He gives her a ring similar to the one heused to go back in time, and on the full moon, they go back tothe 14th century.Conor McCloud and his brother went on crusade nearly adecade before. When they came back, they found their father andsister dead and their home held by the bloodthirsty SimonMcCloud. Though this is long before the Inquisition, witches arestill greatly feared, and Simon has burned several women that hedeclares witches. Now Eilan is back in this world, falling inlove with Conor, and working on her mission of peace. The witchMagdah has told Eilan that if she does not use her power, shewill eventually die, but if she uses her power, the pain willgo away, and her hair will turn white. Her head no longer painsher, and her hair is whiter by the day, as she uses herabilities.

A spellbinding magical romance

While Conor MacCloud and his brother Rowan fought in the Crusades, their Uncle Simon seized their land and castle in Inverness, Scotland. When Conor returns from his escapades in the Mediterranean, including a stay in an Egyptian prison, he fights to regain that which is rightfully his, but his noble army loses to Simon's superior forces. The healer Magdah persuades Conor to find the Peacekeeper. He agrees and she chants in a strange language that sends him in search of a legend. To his shock and bewilderment, Conor finds himself in twenty-first century Seattle. He persuades Eilan Dougan, an empath, that she is the Peacekeeper and his people need her on a quest through time and space. Though some welcome her in fourteenth century Scotland as a savior, others demand her death as a witch. Eilan's only hope to survive this strange world is her guide, Conor, a man she now loves with all her heart. He reciprocates her feelings and just wants to keep her safe rather than subject her to danger as called by her mission. Pam Binder writes a spellbinding magical romance that combines elements from a time travel tale with that of the paranormal and the historical into an entertaining reading experience. The story line of THE ENCHANTMENT is action-packed and filled with romance and danger. Conor is a hero, but the tale belongs to Eilan even if she adapts to easily to a much less technological era. Ms. Binder is an enchantress whose tales inscribe a taste of magic that will send her audience in a quest to read all her novels. Harriet Klausner