cover image Awaken the Highland Warrior

Awaken the Highland Warrior

Anita Clenney. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $6.99 mass market (448p) ISBN 978-1-4022-5123-8

Clenney's Scottish paranormal debut is full of twisty subplots and sexy, romantic fun. Bree Kirkland opens a vault in her family's old burial grounds near Albany, N.Y., and finds a handsome, kilt-wearing Scottish warrior. Faelan claims to come from a clan charged with protecting the human race from demons, one of which turned the tables in 1860 and locked him in a time vault for 150 years. The evil spirit, Druan, is still hanging around, planning to dispatch the entire human race with a deadly virus%E2%80%94and Bree suspects that his human form is her ex-fianc%C3%A9. Faelan is forbidden to marry outside his clan, but that doesn't stop them from falling head over heels as Bree discovers her own inner warrior. Though the story is occasionally cluttered, there's plenty to keep readers looking ahead to the sequels. (May)