Once Upon a Tartan
When this story was originally announced I was a little confused about the choice of hero and heroine. The series is the MacGregor Trilogy, so in following the first book I expected the second to expand on one of the original hero’s brothers or their sister since they are eponymous family. However author Grace Burrowes had her own ideas about which characters deserved a full story, with Once Upon a Tartan reintroducing readers to Hester Daniels, an almost honorary member of the MacGregor clan.Hester’s ties to the clan run deeper than just being the cousin to the laird’s wife. Her older brother Michael fell in love and married the laird’s sister Mary Frances a year earlier and Hester’s older sister is married to another of the MacGregor brood. As the last unwed daughter of the Daniels’ family, Hester remained in her mother’s household after the death of her conniving father Baron Altsax but was under the impression that her hand had been promised to one of his cronies before he died. Not questioning the arrangement, Hester found that her new betrothed was cut from the same bad cloth as her father and ended their engagement in a scandal that forced her to flee to her brother’s holdings in Scotland. Now being the ruined Miss Daniels in social circles, Hester takes on the mantle of spinster and being ever dutiful to her family agrees to be the temporary guardian to her brother’s step-daughter Fiona Flynn while he takes a long postponed honeymoon with his wife.
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