Christmas…Highlander Style

Author Bio courtesy of her website: http://janetchapman.com/books.htm

As I sit here, trying to put into words who I am, I can’t help but think of hats. I know it’s an old, time-worn cliché, but hats fit (no pun intended). Like everyone else, I wear many hats; daughter, sister, wife, mother… teacher and student, philosopher, dreamer… and now – officially – romance writer. I began as a daughter, born in northern Maine, the last of five children. Over the years I picked up several new hats, each of them adding warmth and texture to my life. In 1977 I became a wife, in 1981 a mother (I liked it so much I did it again in 1984). And as each new hat was added, I found that I’ve became stronger, more comfortable with the fit, and happier.

Why I picked The Highlander Series for a Holiday Book Brew with the Coffee Crew…

These books are not technically a Christmas book, although Book 7 probably is considering what it is entitled. But the fact that each novel is full of snow, snow, and more snow…just kidding. Really though, I consider these Christmas books because not only are they about surviving harsh winters in Maine, but it is about becoming a unit. A unity of family as well as neighbors. The fact that they are about hunky time travelling highlanders helps as well. Oh yeah…and many of the female roles were born on the Winter Solstice.

Book 1:   Charming the Highlander:   A feisty beauty tempted by a bold highlander’s touch…When a plane crash strands brilliant scientist Grace Sutter on an icy mountaintop in Maine, she finds herself alone in the wilderness with the only other surviving passenger — Greylen MacKeage, a sexy, medieval warrior who’s been tossed through time to find the woman he’s destined to love. Forced together to survive the harsh, wintry landscape, neither expects the fierce passion that flares between them. But Grace is not used to letting her heart take control, and Greylen will settle for nothing less than her heart’s surrender….

Book 2:   Loving the Highlander:  A tempestuous passion begins with a battle of wills… When Sadie Quill comes upon an unbelievably gorgeous man lying naked beside a lake, she can’t resist taking his photo — and is quickly trapped in a passionate confrontation with the fierce stranger. Discovering the identity of this irresistible warrior will complicate Sadie’s search for a legendary gold mine. For he is Morgan MacKeage, a medieval highlander in modern-day Maine, a man with the fury of the untamed wilderness pounding in his veins — and the power to unlock Sadie’s fragile heart.

Book 3:   Wedding the Highlander:  A runaway beauty finds love in the brawny arms of a handsome stranger. Talented surgeon Libby Hart is fleeing to Pine Creek, Maine, when her car spins out of control and crashes into a pond. She is rescued by Michael MacBain, a medieval highlander trapped in the modern world by a wizard’s spell. Wounded in love once before by a modern woman, Michael wants nothing to do with Libby, but he can’t resist the intense desire she stirs within him. Can this proud warrior pledge his heart to a woman whose secret threatens to change their lives forever.

Book 4:   Tempting the Highlander:  She has the power to tempt him beyond all reason…. Catherine Daniels arrives in Pine Creek, Maine, at just the right time for Robbie MacBain. She is on the run from her ex-husband, and Robbie is a sexy, single foster parent who needs a housekeeper while he travels back in time to medieval Scotland. Unbeknownst to Catherine, Robbie’s looking for a book of spells to save the future of his family…and little did he expect to find a burning passion in Catherine’s arms. Can Robbie seal his family’s fate while enticing Catherine to follow him and her own heart wherever love will take them?

Book 5:   Only with a Highlander:  She must choose between her destiny…and her desire. As soon as Pine Creek’s new mystery man steps into her art gallery, Winter MacKeage is intrigued. This sexy stranger, Matt Gregor, wants her to do some drawings of his dream house. And with his tiger-gold eyes and masculine charm, he’s impossible to resist. But so is Winter’s Scottish heritage. As the seventh MacKeage daughter, she must embrace her true magical calling…and deny her mortal desires. Soon Winter is heating up — in Matt’s strong arms — and her fiery heart is torn. Can she give up the destiny she was born to fulfill for the only man she’s ever truly loved?

Book 6:   Secrets of a Highlander:  He is the father of her child, but the secrets they are hiding are tearing them apart … Megan MacKeage escaped the smothering protectiveness of the Highland MacKeage clan to work as a scientist on the Canadian tundra.  But when fellow researcher Wayne Ferris breaks her heart by rejecting her, Megan returns to Maine alone…. Then she meets the town’s new police chief, Jack Stone – the man she knew as Wayne Ferris.  Instead of the quiet scholar he posed as, he’s an aggressive private eye who’s willing to fight for what he wants, just like all the overbearing men in her clan.  So why is Megan still feeling a dangerous attraction?  And though Jack claims he followed her here because he loves her, can she ever trust a man with so many secrets?

Book 7:   A Highlander Christmas:  Camry MacKeage has absolutely no intention of telling her parents that she left her job as a NASA physicist for the small-town life of a dog-sitter — which is why she’s spending the holidays alone in coastal Maine with her furry friends Tigger and Max. Unfortunately, her irresistibly handsome rival, scientist Luke Pascal, accidentally spilled the beans. Now he’s on a mission from her mother to tempt Camry home for the family’s annual winter solstice celebration. But Luke is hiding his own secret, and he’ll need a little bit of magic to earn Camry’s trust…and a whole lot of mistletoe to seduce his way into her heart.