To Wed a Wild Scot

The Highland Clearances as a background seems to be trending in current historical romance novels. This is the fifth I've read in the past year. In this case it serves as the impetus for the hero Logan to behave as he does, intercepting letters, for the well-being of his clansmen. Lady Juliana's goal in the story is to secure a marriage and thus the guardianship of her late brother's daughter, Grace. If she does not succeed, her father has named an unrelated (nasty) male rather than Grace's perfectly appropriate maternal uncle as guardian. (What?) The old man may be ill and confused, but still. At times Juliana is bold, at others quite insecure, worrying and fretting over her relationship with Logan. After the pair spend a well-chaperoned night in a tenant's home, Logan's brother Fitz pressures Logan "to do the right thing" to protect her reputation; struck me as rather hypocritical as Fitz's betrothed is pregnant and they seem not to be in a rush to wed. Gaelic terms of endearment are liberally distributed throughout the story. In the epilogue their meanings are playfully revealed, as well as in a glossary at the end. I received an ARC from the publisher via netgalley; the thoughts expressed are my own.