Mallory’s series Return of the Highlanders and, like the first, The Guardian, much of the plot revolves around the MacDonald Clan and its efforts to preserve itself amidst the political turmoil of early 1500’s Highlands Scotland. Her derelict husband Magnus would like to kill her - or just settle for letting his men rape her repeatedly - and her father adamantly insists she marry again. (Under Highland law, a spouse has the right to leave within the first year of the marriage for any reason.) Unfortunately for Glynnis, neither her father, the Chieftain of the MacNeil clan, nor her ex-husband is pleased with her response to her first round of nuptial non-bliss. Glynnis has already been married once to a slopsucker of a man whom she stabbed in the thigh - she missed - then deserted. This aversion to matrimony is shared by the novel’s heroine, Glynnis MacNeil. He’s intensely loyal, skilled with children, and has a perfect “arse.” His only blemish: a profound resistance to matrimony born from years of watching his parents’ carriage-wreck of a marriage. He can easily defeat, single handedly, groups of ferocious warriors and, still dripping his enemies’ blood, kiss a chieftain’s gorgeous daughter witless. He’s a “blindingly handsome” golden haired sex god with a killer wit and a deadly claymore. Alex MacDonald, the Scots hero of Margaret Mallory’s The Sinner, has every attribute one could dream up for the perfect alpha male hero.
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