Book Review: The Heart Queen

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

The Heart Queen     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Patricia Potter
Class/Genre:   Romance
Jove, Jul 2001, $6.99, 432 pp.

In 1738 Scotland, Neil Braemoor learns a lesson about love and life. He knows he loves Janet Leslie with all his heart, but will never have her even though she loves him as deeply. Neil’s uncle explains that coming from the wrong side of the sheets makes his blood inferior to the blue-blooded Janet and can only lead to trouble. Neil does the noble thing by stepping away from his beloved. Janet ultimately married Alasdair Campbell when she felt Neil betrayed their love because she cared for Alasdair’s three young daughters not her suitor.

A decade is a more than a lifetime in the Highlands and by 1747 many things changed. With the death of his uncle and his cousin and another cousin assumed dead, Neil is the Marquis of Braemoor. At the same time an unhappy Janet prays that her abusive husband dies. When Alasdair does everyone believes Janet killed him. With no safe place within her present home or that of her patriarchal family, Janet flees to Neil for protection. He takes her in only to have their love blaze brightly again, but conspiracies abound to kill both of them.

THE HEART QUEEN is an exciting sequel to the fabulous BLACK KNAVE. In fact it is the Black Knave who kills Neil’s cousin. This tale fits quite nicely with the previous book, but nicely stands on its own story line that centers on some positive, some negative, but often strange bedfellow relationships. Within that mix, the charcaters are a powerful cast, not just the charming lead duo. Scottish historical romance fans will relish Patricia Potter’s pleasant page-turner.

Harriet Klausner

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