All The Time You Need
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Authors: Melissa Mayhue
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| All The Time You Need | |
| Number I of Magic Of Time | |
| Melissa Mayhue | |
| Melissa Mayhue (2014) | |
| Rating: | **** |
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Highlands of Scotland - 1295
Alexander MacKillican arrives home after a year in Edinburgh, to finds his father dying, his castle under threat of siege by a rival clan, and his twin sister claiming Faeries roam their lands. As the eldest son, it falls to Alex to take on the onerous task of setting things to rights and ensuring the welfare of Clan MacKillican. The last thing he needs is a strange woman arriving unannounced to add to the bedlam that his life has become. Honor demands that he offer her protection.
But is he keeping her safe or has he allowed a most enticing spy into his home?
Denver, Colorado - Present Day
Analise Shaw is the perfect daughter. She's even agreed to marry the
"perfect"
man. But as the wedding nears, a quick trip to Scotland lands her in another time -
A time in which she finds a sense of purpose, a sense of belonging, and a quiet, brooding Highlander who makes her question all her old arguments against ever wanting to marry.
Alex and Annie face the challenge of their lives taking paths completely different from the ones they anticipated. Just as they begin to suspect that, together, they can face any obstacle, they are presented with the biggest obstacle of all:
the Magic that would return Annie to her own time and the man who awaits her there.
Length: Approximately 316 pages
Ages: 18 and up [Story contains sex, mild profanity]
All The Time You Need is the first in Melissa Mayhue’s Magic of Time Series. It picks up where the
Warrior Series
ended. Welcome back to the world of Faeries and Magic!
Highlands of Scotland - 1295
Alexander MacKillican
arrives home after a year in Edinburgh, to finds his father dying, his castle under threat of siege by a rival clan, and his twin sister claiming Faeries roam their lands. As the eldest son, it falls to Alex to take on the onerous task of setting things to rights and ensuring the welfare of Clan MacKillican. The last thing he needs is a strange woman arriving unannounced to add to the bedlam that his life has become. Honor demands that he offer her protection. But is he keeping her safe or has he allowed a most enticing spy into his home?
Denver, Colorado - Present Day
Analise Shaw
is the perfect daughter. She's even agreed to marry the "perfect" man. But as the wedding nears, a quick trip to Scotland lands her in another time—A time in which she finds a sense of purpose, a sense of belonging, and a quiet, brooding Highlander who makes her question all her old arguments against ever wanting to marry.
Alex and Annie face the challenge of their lives taking paths completely different from the ones they anticipated. Just as they begin to suspect that, together, they can face any obstacle, they are presented with the biggest obstacle of all: the Magic that would return Annie to her own time and the man who awaits her there.
Length: Approximately 316 pages
Ages: 18 and up [Story contains sex, mild profanity]
All The Time You Need
is the first in Melissa Mayhue’s
Magic of Time Series
. It picks up where the
Warrior Series
ended. Welcome back to the world of Faeries and Magic!
ALL THE TIME YOU NEED
MAGIC OF TIME SERIES
Book One
by
© 2014 by Melissa Mayhue. All rights reserved
A Note from the Author:
Over the years, I’ve always enjoyed reading a good fantasy. But too often they wouldn’t end the way I wanted them to and I’d hurry back to my Romance shelf, seeking the Happily Ever After ending I craved. Then one day, I stumbled upon a Time Travel Romance by Flora Speer and this wonderful new combination of genres quickly became my very favorite books of all. It was only natural that when I wrote my first book in 2005 -
Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband
- it would be a Time Travel Romance. Twelve books and one novella later, and I still love getting lost in time with a handsome Highlander!
For those of you who have read my
Daughters of the Glen
series and
Warrior
series, this novel will feel like coming home. If you look closely, you’re likely to find some familiar characters wandering through — and perhaps even starring in!— this new series.
Welcome back to the world of Faeries and Time Travel. Welcome to the
Magic of Time
Series!
Here’s the list of stories so far:
1 -All the Time You Need
(Alex and Annie’s story)
2 - Anywhere In Time - coming 2015
(Syrie and Patrick’s story)
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—
Melissa
Prologue
Highlands of Scotland
1295
Alexander MacKillican sat stiffly in the big wooden chair stationed in the center of the dais, doing his best to blank his features of the emotions pummeling his mind. He would never feel comfortable in his father’s seat. No more comfortable than he felt listening to the two bickering idiots in front of him. He’d tried logic and conciliation to end their argument repeatedly over the past half-hour, and still they fussed on.
“Enough,” he bellowed at last, his emotions getting the better of him.
No one—not his father, not him, not even the greatest of all the saints—should be forced to endure this lunacy for even one minute longer. How could he ever have imagined this was how he would spend the rest of his days?
“This is the second time in as many weeks that the two of you have stood here before me, locked in battle over who owns what. If you canna come to an agreement over which of you is the true owner of the beast in question, I’ll settle it myself.”
Though he doubted they’d be happy with his solution to their disagreement.
“Which is why we brought our dispute to the Clan seat to begin with,” the older of the two men yelled, his voice surly in his displeasure. “Yer father would have ended this long past so that Angus and me could be making our way home to the chores that await us instead of standing here in yer great hall wasting the whole of our day while you dither over what’s to be done with us.”
Alex sat back in his seat, positive his mask of calm had cracked wide open at that one. Wasting the whole of
their
day? How dare they take that tone with him? He was trying to work out an equitable settlement for both of them and this was what he got. They criticized him! It wasn’t as if he wouldn’t have much preferred that it was his father sitting here rather than him.
“Very well, then.” Alex leaned toward the men, fighting to keep his temper in check. “If that’s the way it’s to be, then here’s my decision. The ewe is mine. Neither of you deserve her. Now go home the both of you and think upon what you’ve brought down upon yerselves this day with yer petty bickering.”
“So be it, then,” Angus said with finality. “It’s as Alexander the Elder would have done himself.”
“So it is,” the other man agreed.
Without another word, seemingly satisfied with Alex’s pronouncement, the two of them left the hall together without so much as a harsh word between them.
Though his whole life had been spent in preparing Alex to one day replace his father as the laird of their clan, he’d known since the day he’d ridden out of Dunellen’s gates headed for Edinburgh to continue his education that he wanted something different for his future. He wanted something different from the boring day-to-day sameness that had made up the world of his father and his grandfather before him. Alex dreaded a life without challenge. But more than anything, more even than he dreaded the day he would become the true laird of Dunellen, he did not want that day to come now. Nothing felt less desirable to him at this moment than a lifetime spent in dealing with such as he’d just experienced. Two short weeks at home had served to prove to him, even if to no other in the great hall, that he lacked the patience and the wisdom to be laird of Clan MacKillican. And yet, here he was, forced to shoulder the obligation of this burdensome responsibility.
No wonder his father had taken to his bed. Much more of this mind-numbing, soul-killing, unimportant drivel and Alex would be ready to join him.
He’d had such exciting plans for his life when he’d ridden back through the gates of Castle Dunellen. Just a day to spend at home he’d told the friends who traveled with him. Just a day to inform his father of his intention to return with them to Edinburgh. There they would join the forces that gathered to repel the English threat growing at their borders. In those last moments of unfettered freedom, his life had stretched out before him like a shining path, filled with the golden promise of exciting adventures and surprises of all sorts lying in wait around every corner.
Instead, he’d returned home to find his familiar world in total disarray: his father taken to his sickbed with little hope of recovery, his brothers bickering over who should take control in Alex’s absence, his sister blethering on about Faeries roaming their forest, and, worst of all, rumblings of attacks on his people by Clan Gordon.
In the two weeks he’d been home, uncomfortably occupying his father’s seat of power, wasting his time on the likes of Angus and Oren, visions of his future had begun to slip through his fingers like dust and cobwebs. And though his friends, the brothers of his heart, Jamesy MacCulloch and Finn MacCormack, remained steadfastly at his side, united in their support, he was losing any hope of his days ever again holding the sweet promise of adventure or surprise.
Chapter 1
Edinburgh, Scotland
Present Day
“So you’re Annie.” The elderly woman standing in the quaint doorway smiled broadly, holding out her arms, clearly expecting a hug. “I’ve waited such a very long time to meet you. Your grandmother spoke of you all the time. She loved you very much, you know.”