Infused with the same warmth and excitement of the two previous books in her popular Brides of Culdee Creek series, Kathleen Morgan’s third book tells Evan MacKay and Claire Sutherland’s story.
Heartbroken at losing his first love to another man, Evan leaves Culdee Creek in hopes of forgetting her. When his searching heart brings him to his ancestral home of Scotland, he encounters a beautiful young woman who begins to fill the empty corners of his soul.
After a whirlwind courtship, the tempestuous lovers return to Culdee Creek ranch. But when their hopes and dreams are confronted by the realities and challenges of married live, will love be enough to keep them together?
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Sexual Content - 1/5
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Violence - 1/5
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Language - 0/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
Overall Lady of Light is the third book in Kathleen Morgan's Brides of Culdee Creek series. This is a series in which each book can stand alone, as each book on the series is connected to the same family with a different member of the MacKay family playing the role of the main character. In this novel, Evan MacKay is the leading man. He has fled his home of Culdee Creek Ranch near Colorado Springs, Colorado in an effort to drive a woman he lost to another out of his mind and heart (that lady is found in the second novel). He finds himself in Culdee county of Scotland, the land of his MacKay family roots searching, but for what he's not sure. What he ends up with is a bride, a Scottish lassie called Claire Sutherland. I think this is a weak part of the storyline. While, yes, he gets a bride, it just seems like the whole point of him
going to Scotland was not wellexplored. Also, there is a bully of a man who has been trying to force Claire to become his wife, but then he just falls away in the story. Evan takes his new bride and her 16 year old brother and heads back home as he realizes it is time to return and make amends with his family members. This is another place where I feel like the Scotland part of the story got rushed through to get the couple back to Colorado. There are secrets kept from each other that come between Evan and
Claire and threaten to tear them apart, not to mention an angry, selfish, and emotionally damaged 16 year old brother who foolishly persists in pursuing Evan's 13 year old sister. The second part of the story feels as rushed through as the first part. All in all the novel is good, but I think it could be even better. There is too much story crammed into one novel which gives the novel an overall feel of missing something or being unfinished. It's not terrible; it could just be better. She does do a good job in her novels of exploring how her characters' pasts can and often do lead them to make unhealthy, self-protective choices that damage their current relationships.