The forty-third book I read in 2014 was The Wicked Deeds of Daniel Mackenzie. I finished this book on 5/26/14. This is the sixth book in the Highland Pleasures (Mackenzie) series by this author. I have read the previous five books but all previously to 2014 so none are featured in this blog. I rated this book 3.75 stars out of a scale of 5. This book tells the story of Daniel Mackenzie, the son of Cameron Mackenzie from the third book in the series, and Violet Bastien, one of the most famous spiritual mediums in England.
Daniel ends up at one of Violet’s reading performances and finds himself enchanted by this strong woman, even if she is fooling all her “clients.” And when Daniel finds all the mechanics inside the walls that Violet uses to make her clients believe in her spiritual abilities, he knows that she is just the person to help him finish his motor car. Violet’s wind machine could be just what Daniel needs to cool down the motor as it runs.
Violet has a traumatic past though and, unaware of Violet’s issues, Daniel pursues her in a romantic way and promptly gets smashed over the head with a vase for his troubles. Thinking him dead, Violet runs to France to start over and hopefully outrun the law when Daniel presses charges. When Daniel wakes up though, he has no interest in pressing charges and every interest in finding the person who engineered the wind machine. Using the help of his uncle Ian, Daniel tracks Violet down to Marseilles where he finds her up to her old tricks.
After Daniel learns of Violet’s past though he realizes that there are a lot of obstacles to overcome, the biggest being Violet’s damaged psyche. With the help of his family though he is able to make Violet see how special she is to him. Overall I thought this was a very nice story, I loved seeing Daniel in his own story as a grown up after first being introduced to him during his Father’s story.
Link to author website: http://www.jennifersromances.com/
Link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Daniel-Mackenzie-Mackenzies-Series/dp/0425253953/ref=tmm_mmp_title_0
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Rebecca, this is one of favourite series and I have enjoyed seeing Daniel growing up over the course of the books. I loved his story.
Carol, I agree! This has become one of my favorite historical romance series! I hope she continues the series, I’d love to read more!
According to Goodreads, there are at least three more books in the series, Rules for a Proper Governess (7 September 2014) – Sinclair McBride’s story, Scandal and the Duchess (16 September 2014) – Steven McBride’s story and The Stolen Mackenzie Bride (18 August 2015) – no details about the story yet.
That is fantastic! While looking at the author’s website too I discovered 2 Mackenzie family short stories (Mackenzie Family Christmas and The Untamed Mackenzie). If you haven’t read them yet, stay tuned for my next blog post! 🙂