Border Moonlight Book

Border Moonlight by Amanda Scott is one of the rare books that will actually make you want to say Yay for the heroine's independence or cringe with embarrassment when she's confronted with her past. They say your past always catches up with you and our heroine finds this out the hard way. LOL!

Lady Sibylla Cavers is without fear, spunky, headstrong and very pretty. She is so independent that when her father arranges to have her married off three times, she jilts her bridegrooms at the alter. Our Lady is bound and determined to stay single and no one person is going to capture her heart or so she thinks.

Simon Murray is the Laird of Elishaw and swears an oath on the day of his supposed wedding to make his was to be bride pay for jilting him no matter how long it takes. Just a lad of eighteen at the time makes the sting of being rejected all that much more painful. Even still, Simon is a man of honor, means and quite handsome. He really has grown into the epitome of the perfect man and his mother as well as the King are determined to have him married off as soon as they can manage it.

Our story starts out with two youngsters trying to escape the peril of a raging river and Lady Sibylla trying her best to save the first of them. Along comes our Laird Elishaw to witness the bravery or is it recklessness of our Lady as the scene unfolds before him. He rushes down the river in time to pull both Sibylla and the first child to safety. They recognize each other immediately but he doesn't let on to Sibylla that he does indeed know who she is.

Our author gives us a delightful story of stubbornness, tenderness, loyalty, deceit and true love. The perilous danger in the beginning only increases with each twist and turn of our novel. Will Lady Sibylla and her sister ever escape the future that their father has set forth for them? Will living on the borderlands of England and Scotland be the cause of treachery and deceit that could cost a child her very life? Will there be a happy ending and love for our estranged couple? Read and find out.