How to Abduct a Highland Lord Book

"How to abduct a Highland Lord" is the story of Jack and Fiona.
The blurb was the reason I chose this book, but how was I to know that the despicable, drunk lout escaping married women's bed in the prologue would be the hero?!
Fiona is a Maclean, a clan cursed with controlling weather unless they can do one good deed. When her brother Cameron dies because of a feud between Macleans and Kincaids, she decides to take the matters into her own hand and marry Jack; the wastrel and who was her first love.
Now, there are many a heroes I have detested but Jack, oh Jack how I disliked you..
- Deplorable drunk
- Bed hopping between married women
- Breaks up with heroine because he wasn't able to give up his mistress despite taking her virginity
- Goes after wedding night to another woman (and doesn't sleep with her but who cares)
- Post wedding night is drunk and gambling
- Doesn't inform his staff that he's married, inadvertently making them treat his wife like a whore
- Seduces her and falls asleep snoring- because that's what he does after a "good romp"
So yes, he does try to reform a little post marriage and do humane things like, I don't know, remember the name of a butler who's been with him 12 years, but then again, we have scenes where the heroine is forced to go to gaming hells to gain a husband's attention, who doesn't give a crap- and when she refuses to obey him, he flirts with his ex-married-stalking-mistress- while she's forced to do the same with another lout.
Then there's a crazy assassination attempt and crazy nefarious plot out of nowhere, but it was way too late to save the book.
Egh, this one was a totally frustrating read. Didn't enjoy it at all.
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