The Hunter

A new sizzling installment in New York Times bestselling author Monica McCarty's exhilarating Highland Guard Scottish historical romance series. Ewen "Hunter" Lamont has spent four years putting his prized tracking skills to the test in the service of the elite Highland Guard. Curt and short-tempered, no woman has ever been able to thaw his fierce warrior's demeanor... until he meets Sister Genna, a troublesome Italian nun. Alluring and impudent, she doesn't seem like any nun he's ever met--and it's true that she is much more than she appears. She's really Lady Janet of Mar, the missing twin sister of a guardsman's wife, who has been working undercover as a courier for the Scots, and Ewen finds himself charged with finding her and ensuring her safe return. Yet it soon becomes clear that the betrothed Lady Janet affects him in ways he's never felt before. When betrayal leads to danger, everything depends on the man who can find anything. Except, perhaps, what matters most of all: love. CONTINUING SERIES: This is the seventh book in the outstanding Highland Guard series, following The Chief (4/10), The Hawk (9/10), The Ranger (12/10), The Viper (11/11), The Saint (4/12) and The Recruit (11/12). We just went back to contract for this series and we have two more books coming. HIGHLANDER MANIA! Scottish historicals are a spicy hot setting for historical romances asseen by the success of Teresa Medieros's The Devil Wears Plaid, as well as the popular novels of Karen Marie Moning and Diana Gabaldon. BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND SERIES: The Ranger and The Chief both debuted at 24 on the New York Times extended list and The Hawk and The Saint both debuted at 23 on the extended list. McCarty's most recent book, The Recruit, hit 21 on the extended list.