Buying Options

Kindle Price: $4.99

Add Audible narration to your purchase for just $7.49

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

You've subscribed to ! We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period.

Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at
Your Memberships & Subscriptions

There was an error. We were unable to process your subscription due to an error. Please refresh and try again.

Enter a promotion code or Gift Card

Share <Embed>

The Taming of a Highlander (Midnight in Scotland Book 2) by [Elisa Braden]

Follow the Author

Elisa Braden

The Taming of a Highlander (Midnight in Scotland Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Elisa Braden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

923 ratings

Book 2 of 3: Midnight in Scotland

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$4.99

—

Audible Audiobook, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$0.00

Free with your Audible trial

Paperback

"Please retry"

$12.99

$16.35

In the enchanting new Midnight in Scotland series, the unlikeliest matches generate the greatest heat. All it takes is a spark of Highland magic.

A Scot on fire
Wrongfully imprisoned and tortured by an unseen enemy, Broderick MacPherson lives for one purpose—punishing the villain who targeted him. But when a wayward English lass interrupts his revenge, he loses his enemy in the dark. Now, her compelled testimony could send Broderick back to the prison that nearly killed him. Unless they find a loophole—an inconvenient, shockingly tempting loophole.

A beauty under pressure
For Kate Huxley, visiting her brother in the Scottish Highlands is a blissful escape from the stifling expectations of the marriage mart. Blissful, that is, until a scarred, beastly Highlander with a heartbreaking past frightens her out of her wits, making her a witness in a criminal inquiry.

A match to light the darkness
Kate has no wish to testify against a man who’s already suffered too much. But the only remedy is to become his wife. And she can’t possibly marry such a surly, damaged man … can she? Well, perhaps. If it means she can stay in her beloved Scotland. And if he promises they’ll never fall in love.

Print length

406 pages
Language

English
Publication date

December 8, 2020
File size

3644 KB
Page Flip

Enabled
Word Wise

Enabled
Enhanced typesetting

Enabled
See all details

Next 2 for you in this series See full series

Total Price: $9.98

Elisa Braden
687
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.99
Elisa Braden
828
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.99
Elisa Braden
757
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.99
Elisa Braden
781
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.99
Elisa Braden
437
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.99
Elisa Braden
310
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.99

Create your FREE Amazon Business account to save up to 10% with Business-only prices and free shipping. Register today

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08P4YQ6MF
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verity Jane Publishing, LLC (December 8, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 8, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3644 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 406 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1950805077
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #43,331 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #534 in Scottish Historical Romance (Books)
- #567 in Scottish Historical Romance (Kindle Store)
- #840 in Victorian Historical Romance (Books)

Customer Reviews:
923 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Elisa Braden

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Reading romance novels came easily to Elisa Braden. Writing them? That took a little longer. After graduating with degrees in creative writing and history, Elisa spent too many years in “real” jobs writing T-shirt copy ... and other people’s resumes ... and articles about giftware displays. But that was before she woke up and started dreaming about the very unreal job of being a romance novelist. Better late than never.

Elisa lives in the Pacific Northwest, where you're constitutionally required to like the colors green and gray. Good thing she does. Other items on the "like" list include cute dogs, strong coffee, and epic movies. Of course, her favorite thing of all is hearing from readers who love her characters as much as she does.

If you're one of those, get in touch on Facebook (@authorelisabraden) and Twitter (@trueelisabraden), visit her website (www.elisabraden.com), and - most importantly - be the first to hear about new releases, price specials, and fun bonuses by signing up for her email newsletter (bit.ly/ElisaBradenNewsletter). It's easy, quick, and FREE.

Customer reviews

5 star		73%
4 star		20%
3 star		5%
2 star		1%
1 star		1%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

kookyquinn

The hot historical read you're looking for!

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2020

Verified Purchase

Broderick and Kate are such a perfect couple. In this story you’re introduced to the pair of them but before the relationship can progress Elisa takes us on a detour that gives us a detailed reminder of where our broken hero has been and what he was up against.

"White light flashed moon-bright, and for a moment, she was a rabbit pinned by a wolf."

If you’re feeling like it’s been too long since you read the first book or you’re just now finding this series and haven’t read the first book at all. Don’t worry! Elisa makes sure no one is left behind and confused.

“What happened in Edinburgh?” Blue eyes opened. Overflowed. “The devil came for him. And the devil won.”

Once we get back to present day the story takes off like a shot and you’re reading a sweet and STEAMY (see: smoking hot smexytimes) that will make you swoon like crazy.

“There willnae be a bride! Any lass worth havin’ would take one look at me and flee in the other direction.”

I personally feel that the reason these two are so hot together is because of how they fill each other’s lives out of the bedroom. They’re each other’s missing puzzle piece.

"Kiss me, my bonnie Kate. Let me show ye why ye were always meant to be mine.”

Just like all of Elisa’s books there’s lots of humor and you’ll laugh out loud. There’s heartwarming family moments and rich descriptions of magical Scotland that makes you wish you could get on a plane and see it for yourself. Did I mention the heat? I did? Well it’s worth mentioning again. These two were fire!

"If there’s breath in my body, I’ll always find ye. No matter where ye are or how dark it seems.”

13 people found this helpful

Helpful

A moving tale of healing

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2020

Verified Purchase

Will they find their way to one another in the night surrounding them ...

Why is it always so much more difficult to express my liking for one book more than an other.
While there is no big fuss about the author, I await each new release like a gold digger scrutinizes his sieve. Each is a gem to cherish, and this one no different.
This tale is more sober and more somber than its prequel, but it is still a recipient of the author’s narrative talent, of her skill to bring multidimensional flawed souls to life.

I do remember when the Rescued From Ruin series ended having a thought for the last two Huxleys remaining unmarried. When John was a figure of the shadows, Kate was very much there, a lively young girl then miss during the span of years unraveling the different romances.
Of all the Huxleys sisters, I thought her at first a bit on the meek side, afraid of her own shadow but it is a misleading impression, she is a babbling mess when stressed, her imaginative brain creates monsters when there is none, she is the worst liar possible while in fact she is made of magic, she sparks in the dark, she has been made to lighten even the darkest place, to ignite the closed place, to free the trapped soul and broken heart. She sees the good in people and by offering her backing, she releases them from their shackles. Why she is able to look past Broderick’s scars to comprehend the man behind the mask.

How I was heartbroken for Broderick in the previous book, the horrors he survived were just inconceivable, all because of someone crazy wounded ego.
Now disfigured, damaged, he is only breathing for his need to exact revenge. An eye for an eye.
He has no other reason to live, and knows it might end with his own demise.
Why he instantly builds a wall between him and Kate, she is too innocent to touch the beast he has become. But Kate is a force to be reckoned, she does not understand the meaning of “no”. And one brick at a time, she crumbles every wall he tries to erect between them.

This is a moving but also scorching hot tale of a lady with a magic heart mending one caress after an other the crippled soul of a man who has lost his way.
5 stars

9 people found this helpful

Helpful

LisaCfromNY

Highlander Maimed and Tamed, but Far From Broken

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2020

Verified Purchase

In this second book in the "Midnight in Scotland Series," we find Broderick MacPherson and Lady Kate Huxley's story. Lady Kate is the daughter of an Earl and the youngest sister of John Huxley, the engaging hero of the first book in the series, "The Making of a Highlander." Broderick is one of the older stepbrothers to Annie, the fiery heroine from the first book.

Broderick is the victim of a cruel and powerful enemy, which comes to light in the first book with interesting embellishments in this work. Wrongfully imprisoned and near tortured to death, his family and his new brother-in-law-to-be manage to free him, but Broderick has already paid a heavy physical and mental cost. He suffered the loss of an eye, mental torment, extensive scarring and disfigurement, and almost complete decimation of his once-powerful body. The sordid details of his plight are a powerful reminder about what human beings can endure and dish out.

Lady Kate Huxley is a lovely, sensitive, reluctant English debutante. She loathes the idea of another London season and an inevitable role as a society wife, thereby losing her true self and purpose. The limited choices stifle many young ladies, but Kate makes a bold move to find some independence and do some soul-searching with her brother in the Scottish Highlands.

Lady Kate and Broderick form an alliance after Kate becomes an accidental witness to Broderick exacting vengeance on his darkest foe. The remedy to protect Lady Kate from dogged inquires, and Broderick from criminal prosecution is marriage for the unwilling pair. Complications arise from the vast cultural differences between a young English debutante and a truculent highlander with a single-minded focus on justice/revenge. There is a subtle beauty-and-the-beast element, written quite elegantly.

Ms. Braden's delightful characters, comic dialogue, sexy romance, and deft handling of tough subjects earn my high praise. I found the book to be highly entertaining and enthusiastically recommend it.

8 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Fiona Murphy

Best book of the year

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2020

Verified Purchase

Ha! In this box there is a suggestion ‘What did you dislike? What did you like?’ For writing a review.
Well for ‘The Temptation of a Highlander’, I would challenge ANYONE to find something that they disliked?
Honestly, this book has everything that I want in a great story: believable characters that you simply fall in love with, wonderful prose, a tight, well structured plot that has subplots beautifully interwoven in it, protagonists that have you rooting for them from start to finish.
What else can I say? Oh yes - In Broderick Macpherson you have a character that has been through so much wickedness committed upon him that he absolutely deserves to find his way out of the aftermath of a wrongful imprisonment which took him to the brink of death. And he does, thanks to the love and care of his amazing family and the love of Kate Huxley. (If you have read any of Elisa’s Rescued From Ruin series you will know who she is. If not, why not? This is a fabulous series and so absolutely worth reading.)
This is the second of Elisa Braden’s Midnight in Scotland series. And honestly, I adored the book. Not always easy to read because of Broderick’s incarceration in an early 19th century Edinburgh prison. But so worth it, because it added to the depth of the realism in the book. I shall be reading this again and again because there is much to enjoy too. Once I had finished I simply felt adrift. THAT is is the sign of a great book. I expect this to be winning all kinds of awards. Congratulations in advance, Elisa!

2 people found this helpful

Kindle Customer

I do love a good scottish romance

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2020

Verified Purchase

I enjoyed Broderick and Kate' story, a lot.
Broderick MacPherson was wrongfully imprisoned and tortured, now he seeks revenge on those who have done it to him. Kate Huxley has come to Scotland to find herself, to fulfil her dream to become a writer and being an independent woman, who foes not want to enter the marriage mart in England again. When these two meet, boy does it get hot.
I loved Broderick, a scarred protector, he was always trying to save those around him and has a weak spot for women in peril, always doing his best to protect them, he also has a wild and dark side. He is bent one revenge and rightfully so, he is scarred on the outside and broken on the inside.His thirst for revenge almost drops him in hot water again. In comes Kate.
I will be honest, my first impression of Kate wasn't a good one, but she grew on me. I guess I have this expectation of heroine meets hero, but Elisa gave us a honest reaction on Kate's part. When she first met Broderick she was afraid of him, she thoughght she witnessed him do a horrifying thing, but then she saw the person that he was, you quickly realised that she understood her judgement of him was wrong, she fell in love with him and wanted to help him, just as much as she wanted to help herself at first.
I loved them together, they found in each other what they were missing, Kate wasn't just a free spirited girl afraid of marriage, she is witty and has a heart made of gold, Broderick wasn't just a beast bent on revenge, he was a man trying to protect himself and his family, and when they got together it became explosive. It was a pleasure to watch them fall in love, the banter between them, they are becoming one of my favourite couples. The helpful Mrs McBean shows up again in the story, to help the happy couple, well she's not exactly helpful and it gets hilarious, god I love that woman, she always makes me chuckle.
The villain of the story is not a cardboard character either and how he worked behind the scenes to make Broderick suffer, he is not exactly a rolling moustache villain, more like a bloodthirsty one. The kind of character who becomes obsessed with one upping people who he thinks did him wrong. But he does receive his comeuppance.
Throw in a marriage of convenience, a sprinkle of humor and a dash of danger, and we get a perfect story.
*I received a free copy in form of an ARC from the author in exchange for my honest review*

One person found this helpful

Naz

An emotional rollercoaster - would give 10 stars if I could

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2020

Verified Purchase

A new release by Elisa Braden is always an event for me. I am always waiting on tenterhooks with a mixture of anticipation, eagerness, and dread. Dread because I know that when I get my hands on it, I will disappear within its pages till it is finished far too soon and then I am back to waiting in agony for the next instalment. Which is exactly what happened this time as well. I read through the night. I could not put it down. I have not read a book of hers that has disappointed yet.
The Taming of a Highlander is the second book in Elisa’s Midnight in Scotland series and tells the story of Broderick and Katie. It can be read as a stand-alone although it involves then follows on from events in book one [The Making of a Highlander] but all is explained so you don’t feel as if you have missed out. Obviously, reading the first book will have set you up for this as soon as you start reading.
Broderick MacPherson has survived unimaginable horrors having been wrongfully imprisoned and tortured by the machinations of an unseen enemy. His only aim in life now is to find the villain and mete out justice. Having cornered the enemy, he is accidentally interrupted in his ultimate vengeance by Lady Kate Huxley. His enemy disappears but Broderick is in real danger of being sent back to the prison that nearly broke him if she is forced to give her testimony. There is only one way to stop that from happening – and he is shockingly tempted.
Lady Kate Huxley is on a visit to her brother and his wife in the Scottish Highlands and she has fallen in love with the place. She dreads having to return to the monotonous rounds of the marriage mart. She has found her muse. When she witnesses the terrifying, scarred Highlander about to exact his vengeance she is frightened. When she learns of his heartbreaking past she does not want to make life worse for him. But the only way to stop that is to marry him. Can Kate shine a light into Broderick’s damaged heart and banish the darkness within?
Occasionally you read a book that touches every part of your soul. I cannot describe how wonderful this book is. This story really put me through the wringer. It is darker in tone than the first in the series and I was expecting that but when we are given the flashback to what actually happened to Broderick throughout his ordeal I was almost in tears. I almost didn’t want to read that part because you know what happens to him and it is beyond bearing but I was compelled to.
Broderick emerges from that a completely changed man physically and mentally and your heart just aches for him. He is so strong to survive what he did. I fell in love with Broderick. He went through such horrors, but he did not lose his courage, honour, kindness, or gentleness. He was focused on his revenge, but he didn’t throw away his relationships or withdraw from his family. His love for them shines through. Kate threw him for a loop but although he was at first surly and distant, he was never cruel. In fact, he recognised fairly quickly what Kate meant to him and he did everything to keep her protected.
I loved Kate. She is kind, sweet-natured, independent and will do anything for her loved ones. She is definitely a Huxley with that Huxley flush! She is also a ray of sunshine and joy in Broderick’s dark world. I love how she wants to protect Broderick and keep him from harm.
Although it is slightly darker and there are elements of heartrending sorrow in parts, the story is filled with humour, charm, passion, hope and whimsy. Elisa’s writing is superb. She has the ability to make the reader feel what the protagonists feel. With a word here and a sentence there the reader is submerged into the world she creates. She really is a master of her craft. The story is scattered with so many sweet and humorous moments that steal your heart – Kate’s habit of touching Broderick’s scarred face for one, Mrs MacBean’s Stoat Tonic - and I have to admit that I did not realise what ‘coo’ meant till Kate giggled over Broderick’s pronunciation!
The secondary cast of characters are as always wonderful. The MacPherson men – Angus, Alexander, Campbell and Rannoch, John and Annie, Sabella who breaks my heart, Magdelene, Francis and the fabulously eccentric Mrs MacBean. They all contribute to and enrich the story.
I was gifted an ARC of this but will be buying my own copy and am [as expected] waiting with bated breath for the next story in this series. It goes without saying that I highly recommend you read this book. I know it will be a permanent fixture on my reread list.

One person found this helpful

cheryl

A wonderful story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2020

Verified Purchase

Wow! What a story! Plenty of passion, tense moments and dangerous times. Broderick was the ultimate hero, dark, brooding, very protective of his loved ones. He had suffered unspeakable horrors and it was only his strength of character and need for justice that enabled him to carry on. Kate was the extreme opposite, she was quite whimsical, making up senseless and tuneless songs and concentrating on possible scenes for her book. However, Kate had a very caring heart and she brought out the best in people. They were just so right for one another, they understood what the other needed. These are the sort of characters that stay with me, long after I have finished reading. This was an enthralling read and I can’t wait for the next in the series. There were a number of interesting secondary characters as well. Hopefully, they will get their stories!

One person found this helpful

Kindle Customer

Another hit by Elisa Braden

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2020

Verified Purchase

Waited for this release with great anticipation Absolutely loved this story. Elisa just keeps getting better and better. Kate being the youngest sister has appeared in other books so we have had time to imagine what it would be like and this did not disappoint. Of course it was never going to be smooth sailing for her. Broderick is everything and more a larger than life hero, scarred on the inside as well as the scars we can see. But Kate has her own hard ship to deal with and I love how her time with the odd flowers was turned into a positive not only for her but for those who joined her along the wall. Her journey to true happiness is perhaps tougher that most but she comes through it brilliantly. I cried and laughed throughout this book and you will too. If I could give this ten stars I would. Best book of the year. Can't wait for more of the same as this Scottish story unfolds.

One person found this helpful

See all reviews