The Heather Moon (Scottish Clans)

by Susan King

Setting: Scotland Borderlands, 1526 Sensuality Rating: 8 The daughter of a Scottish laird and a beautiful gypsy woman, Tamsin Armstrong grew up with a foot in both worlds--heeding the calls of her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451407741
• ISBN13: 9780451407740
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.8" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful story

This is a beautiful story of love between a wonderful man and a woman who has been emotionally scarred by the reaction of others to her physical deformity. Will accepts Tamsin's deformed hand without question and often holds and kisses it. He shows her a passage in a book stating that those with deformities "are not to be pitied or suspected . . . but should be regarded as healthy beings . . . as part of the wondrous and endless variety of Nature in all her aspects." Both Will and Tamsin have guarded hearts, and their attraction to each other is beautiful. Will is the perfect hero: a man with a pure heart and soul. He is strong, passionate, devoted and honorable, as well as sensitive, compassionate, tender and gentle. Here is a beautiful man loving a less than perfect woman in whom he sees only beauty (except, perhaps, for her temper!).With its perfectly-paced character development and lyric dialog, I read every word of this story. The rhythm of the story is disturbed only once, during the climax, but it brought a smile to my face, so I thought I'd mention it. (I could hear an editor saying, "But where'd that branch come from, hey?")

Fascinating!!! It will keep you up all night.

Ms. King does it again. Within the first few pages I was captivated. Tasmin, the half gypsy- half Scottish girl takes your heart. She has a deformed hand and a very low self-esteem. Everyone thinks she is bad luck.. but there is one person who doesnt.... William Scott. He has been raised with the King of Scotland but never has forgotten his heritage. When a no good English lord requests his assisstance he has no choice but to help and uncover the secret reguarding threats to the baby Queen. Tamsin also gets mixed up with the bad englishman and now must stay with Will for two weeks under constant supervision...Together they have many adventures and there are many funny parts. This story was so interesting to me i went out and purchased a book on palmistry. The details are wonderfully written and you can even smell the flowers. This is a book a lot of people can relate to. A must read for anyone who loves Scotland or needs a little reassurance in the love department.

Excellent - characters were wonderfully human!

The author did a great job describing the characters' feelings. Both characters wrestled with serious issues; Tamsin - her deformed hand and half-breed status and William his father's cruel death followed by his imprisonment and his feelings of unfulfilled love. The author skillfully writes of the gradual ability each character develops to overcome their fears and problems. I was especially impressed with the way the author writes of Tamsin's handicap. William loves her so much that he doesn't even see her as handicapped, only as the beautiful person she is. She, in turn, begins to believe she is beautiful. The Heather Moon is a heartwarming story of how fate intervenes in the lives of these two characters and they come to believe they not only love each other, but are destined to be together.

Susan King does it again!

No one writes Scotland better than Susan King. She does a flat-out marvelous job of weaving history, romance, and adventure into a terrific read. Her Gypsies seem like real Gypsies, not the romanticized Hollywood variety. Her books also use metaphysical elements in an appealing, unpretentious way. Best of all, her characters are people I can like and respect, not arrogant jocks and brainless twits. Tamsin and William are both winners.

Historical Romance at It's Best

Ms King has done it again with a story that is intensly satisfing for the reader. She has created wonderfully developed characters who the reader will care about and who become more real as each page is turned. Ms King's become a leader in writing historical set in Scotland and Heather Moon is a classic example of her extraordinary talent. When others are clamouring to write about the Highlands she can give the reader a story set in the turbulant southern Borders of Scotland that is rich in detail with historical twists and turns that satisy the most synical reader. HEATHER MOON is a keeper to be sure for any serious romance reader who wants a story that is well researched but at no time does the history take over the story. Never does she use the often trite meaningless sex scene to move her story along. The sensual scenes are done with taste and within the context of the story. No romance author today weaves a more vivd tapistry of history, intrique, magic and love with all its many hues than MS. King. You can't be a serious romance reader if you don't read Ms King.