Review: Highland Beast by Heather McCollum

 

Bàs Sinclair is the cold and brutal hand—and sword—of justice across the Highlands. He has one destiny: to bring fear into the hearts of guilty men. But when he is called to execute a midwife for her crimes, he cannot raise his weapon. For Bàs already knows this lovely, part-wild creature. After all, she gave him his first and only kiss…

Shana Drummond will do anything to protect her beloved sister. Now her cruel, merciless brother-in-law has called upon Bàs to have Shana killed for crimes she didn’t commit. She can’t reconcile the cold, lethal warrior before her with the gentle one she met—nay, kissed—only days before.

But mercy from Bàs can only lead to one thing: war among the clans. A war that will test allegiances, tear families apart, and challenge everything Bàs knows about himself and his heart. Because once this Highlander knows love, nothing will stop him from keeping Shana safe…even if it means destroying his own destiny.

My Review

Highland Beast by Heather McCollum
My rating: 5 of 5 stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Another great addition to this series. Throughout this whole series, Bas has been the one brother we hardly know much about so I enjoyed getting to know him better. And of course, Shana is another strong woman able to see who he truly is despite his infamous reputation.

Bas Sinclair was raised to yield justice across the Highlands. It's ways heavy on him and it leads him to live separate from his family, especially now that all his brothers are married with children. At his little homestead, he lives surrounded by animals, his wolf, dogs, cat, horse, cows, and now a squirrel.

His wolf alerts him to something in the woods and what he finds is a woman and baby hiding from a pack of wolves that roam the forest. He takes them in and learns that Shana is a midwife and the baby belongs to her sister, who begged her to run with the baby.

Shana takes off to look for her sister leaving the baby with Bas.

When he's called to execute someone the last person he expects to see is Shana. He manages to save her but her cruel brother-in-law will not stop spreading his lies about her, garnering the attention of the king.

Bas is willing to go to war to keep Shana safe because despite it all he's fallen in love with the woman who was able to change the way he sees himself.

Thank you so much to the author, Entangled and NetGalley for this ARC to review.

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