seriously romantic: my scot, my surrender by amalie howard and angie morgan

all brandt pierce was after was a horse. instead he gets a kiss, a wife, and a crazed englishman chasing him all over scotland. he will still get the horse at the end. and he holds onto that as all sorts of crazy invades his existence.

speaking of crazy, he's kind of secretly crazy about his wife. sorcha maclaren is known as the beast of the maclaren's due to an encounter with a wolf when she was a child that left her scarred. she wears her scars proudly, refusing to hide when people would deride her appearance. this doesn't mean that she isn't sensitive to them. the scars on her face are "nicer" than the ones on her chest. and none of her scars seem to bother brandt who is the first person outside her family that she's ever felt actually sees her.

but brandt insists that their marriage remain temporary. he feels he has nothing to give the daughter of a duke. he's the bastard son of a stablemaster. but when a reclusive monk reveals the first solid clue that brandt has ever gotten on his true identity, things start to change. and there is a real chance that what's been building between brandt and sorcha since they met at the selkirk fair can be something real and everlasting.

as the closing book in the lords of essex series, my scot, my surrender is a wonderful series capper. we have a chance to reconnect with all the previous couples in the series and see where they all end up. and i'll be honest, i think brandt and sorcha might be my favorite couple from the series.

**my scot, my surrender will publish on january 29, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (amara) in exchange for my honest review.