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Let the chase begin! Fleeing to an abbey isn't really Seonaid Dunbar's first choice. She'd been trained alongside her brother as a Scottish warrior at her father's knee. But running was preferable to wedding Blake Sherwell, a man the English court calls the Angel. Seonaid knows there are no English angels, only English devils—and more than one way to elude a devilish suitor, even if King Henry himself has ordered her to marry him. Blake believed the next countess of Sherwell would be sitting at home— embroidering perhaps—as she eagerly awaited his arrival. Instead, she is hiding behind the walls of a new stronghold and readying her defenses. To win this battle of wills, Blake will need every weapon at his disposal: swords, sleeping drafts, claymores, sweet words, and passionate kisses. But he has to catch her first.
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As much as I enjoyed this book, it was not as fun and zany as the previous two. Don’t get me wrong, I love the characters and there was fun, adventure, falling in love, and peril. There just wasn’t quite the crazy goings-on I’m used to with this author.
I have to warn you, although this can be read as a standalone I don’t think you’ll like the character of Blake in the beginning if you don’t already know him from the first book. I was dumbfounded by his arrogance and blasé attitude initially and know he would have had to do a lot more to earn my favor if I didn’t already know the character. That being said, his arrogance significantly played into the storyline.
When it came down to it, I ended up loving this couple. Especially in the last few chapters, after they are finally married. Seonaid is not quite as rough as she seems and Blake is not as snobbish as he seems. They slowly develop respect for each other as the story progresses, and that respect turns to more.
In the beginning, the chase this book is named after was fun. Yet there came I time I thought it went on for too long. I enjoyed the machinations of Seonaid and her girlfriends as they outfoxed the men over and over, but I was ready for the story to move along by the time they made their way back to Seonaid’s home.
It was great seeing everyone from the previous two books throughout this book. It was organic and made sense to the story so it didn’t disrupt the flow to have them an appearance.
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