Historical Paranormal Romance
From Goodreads:
Acclaimed
author Isabel Cooper’s thrilling paranormal romance series continues with a
sexy Highland dragon shapeshifter and an inquisitive hero…
William
Arundell is a detective working for a secret branch of the English government.
When a young man is found dead, William’s investigation leads him to a remote
Highland village and the intoxicatingly beautiful lady who rules MacAlasdair
Castle.
The charismatic Judith MacAlasdair
is not what William expected. The only daughter in a long line of
shape-changing dragons, Judith is wary of William and his unrelenting
questions. However, when William’s investigation takes an interesting turn,
they must put aside years of bad blood and a mutual distrust of outsiders to
band together to save the British Islands from its deadliest foe.
Night of the Highland Dragon has
two very interesting protagonist.
Neither are that young. In
fact Judith MacAlasdair is 180 years old even though she looks like she is in
her twenties. William Arundell is
not that old but he is around forty.
They make a great pair.
The Highland Dragon series takes a
slightly different approach to the paranormal. It mixes the historical with the paranormal and the mix
works. While Judith is a dragon
you see her more in her human form.
The mystery is front and center and allows both Judith and William time to
become very well developed characters.
That is important as this is a character driven story and it takes two
very strong people to pull everything off.
The world building is great and
there is enough back story to let you know the history of Judith and the
village where she lives. William
also has some back story but the agency he works for is more of a shadow than a
reality.
I did wonder how they would get
their HEA. Judith is so long lived
and William is a normal human but Cooper found a very elegant way to make their
romance possible. Night of the
Highland Dragon is a great addition to the series and like books one and two
features a great plot, good writing and wonderful characters.
Night of the Highland Dragon is book three in the series
but it does a great job as a stand alone.
If you start here you will want to go back and read books one and
two. They feature Judith’s two
brothers.
Sourcebook Casablanca published
Night of the Highland Dragon by Isabel Cooper in 2015.
I received an ARC of Night of the
Highland Dragon in return for an honest review.
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