Sourcebooks Casablanca Romance Authors

Title: Night of the Highland Dragon   Author: Isabel Cooper Series: Highland Dragons, #3   Pubdate: June 2 nd , 2015 ISBN: 9781402284731 “They say,” said the girl, “that people disappear up there. And I heard that the lady doesna’ ever grow any older.” “The lady?” William asked. “Lady MacAlasdair. She lives in the castle, and she’s been there years, but she stays young and beautiful forever.” In the Scottish Highlands, legend is as powerful as the sword—and nowhere is that more true than in the remote village of Loch Aranoch. Its mysterious ruler, Judith MacAlasdair, is fiercely protective of her land—and her secrets. If anyone were to find out what she really was, she and her entire clan would be hunted down as monsters. William Arundell is on the trail of a killer. Special agent for an arcane branch of the English government, his latest assignment has led him to a remote Highland castle and the undeniably magnetic lady who rules there. ...

I have bought my plane tickets for Christmas. This is all very adult, both because I bought them in advance and because I’m actually going to fly this time, despite the little pile of neurosis I become around plane travel. (Before the advent of modern chemistry, I left little fingernail divots in the armrests each time we hit turbulence.) Like many people, I’m going home to see my family, to stay in the house where I spent much of my childhood, and to practice the traditions that have been a part of my life for a long time. The Highland Dragon’s Lady isn’t actually a holiday story, but it too is about going home and encountering the past; it’s about reunions, and how they both defy and highlight transformation. We leave the place where we came from, most of us. We go away, we change—and sometimes we don’t even know how deep or wide those changes are until we come back. The things and people we leave behind change too, of course, even if we don’t expect that change, or wan...