Book Genre: Historical

Hearts of Steel

Posted November 17, 2025 by Willa Blair in / 0 Comments

Five fierce heroines. Five fearless warriors. Five unforgettable beginnings.

In an age of honor, vengeance, and unbreakable vows, these powerful medieval romances forge the first sparks of epic love stories—each the opening chapter in a bestselling author’s beloved series.

From mystical gifts and healing magic to Viking exiles, clan feuds, stolen memories, and forbidden desire, this collection celebrates the strength of women who choose their own fate and the warriors bold enough to stand beside them.
Steel may shape the battlefield, but only love can temper the heart.

A Knight for Kallen — Alexa Aston

Raised in a convent and gifted with the ability to read auras, Kallen finds herself under the protection of a grief-hardened knight who has vowed never to love again. But when a royal bastard seeks to use her gift to steal the throne, only Griffith’s courage—and their growing bond—can change the course of a kingdom.

Highland Prodigy — Willa Blair

Jamie Lathan hides a forbidden gift: the power to heal, a magic that could cost him his life. When apprentice healer Aftyn discovers the truth, their forbidden love forces them to choose between clan duty and the future only they can create together.

Taming the Wolf — Virginie Marconato

Waking without her memory in a slave market, Merewen is claimed by Wolf of the North—an exiled Norseman who sees courage where others see only captives. He offers her freedom if she’ll become his wife, but resisting him grows harder than resisting fate itself.

Picking Up the Gauntlet — Elizabeth Rose

Lady Raven Blake refuses to be a trophy in her father’s tournament and secretly commissions the castle’s new armorer to forge her battle gear. But when passion ignites between a noblewoman and a common warrior, their forbidden love puts both their lives—and hearts—on the line.

Knight in Her Bed — Sue-Ellen Welfonder

Accused of murdering a MacInnes woman, Laird Donall MacLean lands in the dungeon of the fiery Lady Isolde—chieftain of his clan’s sworn enemies. As desire flares between captor and captive, Isolde must choose between her clan’s vengeance and the warrior who could destroy—or save—her heart.

Previously published works, collected here for the first time to bring you five unforgettable beginnings in medieval romance.

Highland Seasons

Posted April 25, 2024 by Willa Blair in / 0 Comments

Journey back to 15th and 16th century Scotland in this collection of short stories spun off from Willa Blair’s bestselling novels in the Highland Talents series and His Highland Heart series.

Plus, Blair’s fans will love the two sneak peeks of upcoming new books!

Calum Brodie and Ella Munro Ross must deal with a devastating injury he received in HIS HIGHLAND LOVE. Just as they are coming together, will deception keep them apart forever?

Keenan and Fenella MacNabb’s story surrounds HEART OF STONE. Tragedy brought them together. Is helping each other past their grief enough to sustain their love?

Jamie Lathan and Caitrin Fletcher’s story begins before HIGHLAND TROTH. They fall in love in a time of tragedy that plants the seed in young Jamie for the novel's shocking climax. Years later, have they found happiness together?

Meet the Sutherland twins, older brothers of Cameron Sutherland, mentioned in HIS HIGHLAND BRIDE. It’s said the lasses can’t resist them. Could it be true, even for the daughter of an enemy clan’s laird?

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Laird of Sighs

Posted September 28, 2024 by Willa Blair in / 0 Comments

Their clans say they’re enemies, but their hearts disagree.

 

Now that his twin is blissfully married and starting a family, Anders Sutherland longs for the same happiness. Lasses have always favored him, but he refuses to settle for anything less than a love match. Winning a bride worth keeping for life is a challenge he will enjoy—if he survives. When a storm at sea spits Anders onto a hostile shore, he finds himself falling for the spirited lass who nurses him back to health.

 

The handsome stranger who shows up at Ailsa Sinclair’s clan stronghold captivates her. Is he friend or foe? Her parents and brother, the heir, are away, so the clan's safety depends on her ruling. Then the stranger collapses at the gate, making the decision for her. As she cares for his injuries, she learns why all the lasses sigh over him, and her spark of attraction to him grows into fevered longing.

 

But Ailsa soon discovers that no matter how he came to them, Highland hospitality be damned, she should never have allowed Anders inside her walls. Fearing betrayal, he has kept an important secret. He’s the son of an enemy laird. Will she fight to save the man who stole the heart she has so carefully guarded for years, or will she let her family toss him in the dungeon—or worse, back into the sea?

 

Highland Healer

Posted August 20, 2018 by Danielle Gorman in / 0 Comments

HE NEEDS HER FOR HIS CLAN.
HE WANTS HER FOR HIMSELF.
CAN HE HAVE BOTH?

Toran Lathan never expected to become Laird, and never expected to meet a woman like Aileana Shaw. Her healing ability is just what his people need, but Toran cannot resist her beauty. Yet will loving him destroy her ability to heal?

Aileana Shaw has a healing touch - and a special talent she must keep secret. Stolen from her home by a marauding army, she's kidnapped again by the Highland Laird she heals. Is she a prize of war, or the prize of his heart?

While Toran battles the invading lowland army, he also battles his desire for Aileana. And Aileana must decide if she can trust her secrets to this fierce warrior who needs her talent, but wants her love.

 

 

 

 

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Highland Prodigy

Posted July 13, 2021 by Willa Blair in / 0 Comments

Jamie Lathan is a formidable warrior, yet his life depends not only on his legendary prowess with a sword, but on keeping a dangerous secret. Like his mother, Jamie wields the power of healing magic. From childhood, he knew that those skills, often feared in a woman, would be condemned outright in a man. Discovery could mean imprisonment or death, but Jamie soon learns that denying his compulsion to heal is to deny the very core of himself.

Aftyn Keith desperately tries to fill the role of Healer after her mother dies unexpectedly. Still an apprentice, ill-prepared and hampered by her illegitimate birth, Aftyn knows that her best may not be enough to keep her place as a useful member of the clan. When a handsome Lathan warrior with healing skills far beyond her ken arrives and succeeds in saving his gravely injured kinsman, she begs him to teach her.

Jamie risks everything in choosing to trust Aftyn. But when she unwittingly betrays him, Aftyn is faced with a decision that may gain Jamie's freedom, but cost her the only home that she has ever known. In the face of her growing feelings for Jamie, she knows that either decision will leave her heart broken beyond any Healer's mending.

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Highland Memories

Posted October 9, 2021 by Willa Blair in / 0 Comments
When fosterling David MacDhai left the Lathan clan, he took the shards of Lianna Lathan’s young love with him. Until the day she follows a gravely ill horse to its injured rider, she believes her heart is past mending. Stunned by a flood of memories, she recognizes the man on the ground before her is the lad she’s dreamed of for seven long years and thought never to see again.
David MacDhai recently inherited a troubled keep in the Highlands. As laird, it is his responsibility to put a stop to whatever is sickening the horses his clan relies on for income and defense. His only hope to save them—and to strengthen his tenuous hold on his clan—lies at the end of a painful journey. David seeks the Highland Healer’s special talents, but her daughter, Lianna, is the one who may hold the key to saving his clan.
Though Lianna is determined not to give David the power to hurt her again, for the sake of his horses, she cannot refuse to go with him. Seeing her unlocks an aching need that he kept hidden deep in his heart and in his memories. As they struggle to uncover the origin of the mysterious ailment, they fight to control the embers of passion flaring brightly between them once more. Can they heal the pain of the past when their very lives may be at risk?
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The Healer’s Gift

Posted August 20, 2018 by Danielle Gorman in / 0 Comments

THE HEALER'S GIFT resolves the story of one of the most tormented characters in HIGHLAND HEALER. Coira MacDugall deserves the harshest punishment for her actions in the Highlands.  But her clan's new laird, Logan, defies her expectations.  And the Healer's gift changes everything she thought she knew -- about herself and her future.

Coira MacDugall paid with her life for her attack on the Highland Healer. But her victim did more than heal Coira's fatal wound that awful night. Now drowning in the unwelcome emotions of others, Coira wonders if her new empathic ability was meant as a gift or a curse.

Logen MacDugall must discover who killed three previous lairds if he hopes to survive for long in the position. He believes Coira’s new sense can help him root out the conspirators, but after her disastrous time in the Highlands, the last thing she wants is to get involved with another laird. Logen must help Coira gain control of her talent in time to save him and their clan from those intent on destroying MacDugall.

Can Coira believe this laird truly loves her? Or will her memories lead her to madness again?

 

 

 

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Highland Reckoning

Posted February 13, 2022 by Willa Blair in / 0 Comments

Drummond Lathan has never wished for any form of the strange talents that curse his mother’s bloodline. Serving as his father’s advisor, negotiator, and second in command, his position as Lathan heir and his highly honed skill as a warrior garner him more than enough attention without the added burden of the hushed whispers his talented siblings have to bear.

Morven MacComas knows the destructive power of whispers. A year and a day after handfasting, her husband denied her and disappeared, leaving her disgraced and brokenhearted. When she discovered he also left her pregnant, she vowed that there would be but one love in her life—her child. Years later, even as she struggles to deny her attraction to the visiting Lathan heir, Morven fears his recent arrival is somehow linked to a daring daylight raid on her village. Along with cattle, reivers have taken her young son.

Drummond has always had a knack for finding lost things, but believes his success is simple good fortune. As the attraction between Drummond and Morven grows, his heartfelt attachment to her becomes a bond that could lead to the boy—if Drummond can accept that his talent is real and valuable. And if Morven can allow herself to trust in love again before her son is lost forever.

 

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When Highland Lightning Strike..

Posted August 20, 2018 by Danielle Gorman in / 0 Comments

A Man who would be Laird
Angus MacAnalen fully expects to succeed his dead brother as Laird. But on the day of the Clan Council’'s vote, a new lass steals his breath and his heart, making him question the ambition that drives him. When he begins to suspect she has a hidden talent that could help his clan, he must overcome the painful disappointment of the past before it costs him the future he desires.

A Lass in Exile
Because of her strange ability, Shona’'s village banished her to live with a distant uncle after her parents died. When she catches the eye of the prospective laird of her new home, she fears the clan'’s scrutiny may cause her to be expelled again, or worse. But Angus seems determined to win her heart, and Shona can’'t help wanting to give it to him, despite the risks.

A Love Lifted out of the Ruins
Broken promises and broken dreams litter their pasts, and their present. Can they build a future from the ruins?

HIGHLAND DREAMER

Posted May 27, 2022 by Willa Blair in / 0 Comments

Tavish Lathan sees the future in his dreams. Because he lacks a full command of the talent he inherited from his mother, his predictions don’t always come to pass. So when death clouds the destiny he foresees for a beautiful visitor to the Lathan keep, Tavish prays this foreshadowing will be one of his unfulfilled visions.

After her seer’s sense warns of danger, Yvaine begs her parents to allow her to accompany them to a gathering of clan chiefs at the Aerie. Her father has his share of enemies, and her powers of prophecy are often less than reliable, so her only hope of seeing the threat in time to protect him is to remain close at hand.

Tavish’s visions fail to predict the ardent feelings he develops when he meets the doomed lass. His efforts to protect Yvaine from her fate cause her to misunderstand his intentions. She believes that he is part of a conspiracy to kill her father. When the real danger appears, can they trust each other—and their burgeoning abilities—enough to keep their dreams of death from coming true?

 

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