cover image Falls of Gard

Falls of Gard

Laura Black. St. Martin's Press, $15.95 (241pp) ISBN 978-0-312-28009-3

Shipped for grooming back to the family homestead in Scotland from her beloved Australia, Arabella Gordon faces the fettering of her untrammeled tomboy spirits. A lioness in beauty, her affections sought by three suitors who had been childhood playmates, Arabella at 18 is not ready for marriage. Yet, when she spends an innocent but compromising night with the enigmatic Marquess of Gard, their marriage is inevitable. Soon after Arabella becomes mistress of the vast estate of Glenyard, the entire glen comes alive with good and bad deeds, spurned lovers, mysterious liaisons, even gunshots and threats of murder. Although the outcome of this historical romance is predictable, Black (Strathgallant creates some lively times for an engaging heroine. (May 21)