Susan King Books In Order

The Sword Maiden

Blacksmith Lachlann MacKerron has loved beautiful and wise Eva MacArthur, daughter of the clan chieftain, since they were children. What he doesn t know is that she loves him, too. Believing that a future for them is impossible, Lachlann leaves Scotland to fight with Joan of Arc in France. When he returns bitter, disillusioned, scarred, and doubting his ability to craft the miraculous swords he once created he learns that Eva is in desperate need of his help. Legend says Eva must save her beloved Innisfarna with the power of her sword, and only Lachlann can forge a Sword of Light. But beneath the surface of the warrior and the bladesmith lie a man and a woman, deeply in love and desperate to save their clan and find a way to spend their lives together.

Keeping Kate

The brazen beauty is said to possess fairy magic, and has successfully charmed and seduced English soldiers out of their most carefully guarded secrets to aid her kinsmen. But now the infamous Kate MacCarran has met the one man who seems immune to her legendary allure…

Captain Alec Fraser of The Black Watch has no doubt that Katie Hell is trouble. Hadn’t she just drugged him, kissed him, then searched through his belongings? Now the elusive spy is his captive, and it is Alec’s duty to transport her to Edinburgh. But the Highland hellion challenges him at every turn, determined to escape with her secrets. Soon Alec discovers that Keeping Kate out of mischief may be an almost impossible task…
just as Kate realizes that surrendering to his passionate love may be her most dangerous mission yet.

Taming the Heiress

Beautiful Meg MacNeill never thought of herself as an heiress, let alone one of the richest, most eligible women in Scotland. Her humble upbringing in the Western Isles, and her secret child born of a magical night and a mysterious man make her role in glittering Edinburgh society seem unlikely, even dangerous…
especially when she comes face to face with her devastatingly attractive enemy.

Waking The Princess

An antiquarian for the National Museum, Christina Blackburn has her reasons for disguising her smoldering beauty. She posed for a painting that scandalized the Victorian art world — and it nearly ruined her life. But when the museum sends her on a trip across Scotland, Christina finds herself face-to-face with the same notorious painting and its dangerously handsome owner. Sir Aedan Arthur MacBride knows the local legend about the sleeping maiden but refuses to believe in such a curse. Then he gazes upon this very real maiden’s face, and he knows he is utterly doomed…

Laird of Twilight

A reluctant groom…

Noble warrior James MacCarran has no desire to venture onto the thorn*y battlefield of marriage. But his grandmother’s will issues an ultimatum marry or forfeit his rightful inheritance and now he must find a bride. Only the most ravishing woman could make it worth his while, but when he meets Elspeth MacArthur, she is nothing like he anticipated. Yes, she is beautiful, luminous really, but there is something mysterious about this lass…
An enchanting bride…

Reluctant to leave her Highland home, Elspeth must keep an astonishing secret when unexpected circumstances force her to marry. But as an unseen threat draws ever closer, about to reveal the truth of her life in the mystical Highlands, she soon realizes that her only haven is in James’ passionate embrace…
and that carries the greatest risk of all.

Laird of Secrets

Her time is nearly out…

To claim her inheritance, Fiona MacCarran must marry a wealthy Highlander, and soon. Arriving in the misty Highlands as a schoolteacher, she despairs of finding an acceptable groom…
until she meets Dougal MacGregor. She knows he’s just a smuggler, and yet when the handsome laird pulls her into his arms, she forgets about obligations, the law, and finding that perfect Highland groom.

He must save his clan…

Moving his finest whiskey and fast is the only way Dougal can protect his people. It should be simple, but nothing is easy with Fiona MacCarran around. He cannot allow himself to be distracted by the sensual schoolmistress. After all, a Highland rebel and a law abiding lass could never have a future together…
or could they? Soon they are caught in a battle between honor and desire, with the only victory lying in sweet, sweet surrender.

Black Thorne’s Rose

Stripped of her land and forced to marry a ruthless earl, Emlyn de Ashbourne flees into the woods, where she falls in love with a mysterious outlaw named Black Thorne, never realizing that he is her husband.

Lady Macbeth

I am granddaughter to a king and
daughter to a prince, a wife twice over, a queen
as well. I have fought with sword and bow, and
struggled fierce to bear my babes into this world.
I have loved deeply and hated deeply, too.

Lady Gruadh, called Rue, is the last female descendent of Scotland’s most royal line. Married to a powerful northern lord, she is widowed while still carrying his child and forced to marry her husband s murderer: a rising war lord named Macbeth. Encountering danger from Vikings, Saxons, and treacherous Scottish lords, Rue begins to respect the man she once despised and then realizes that Macbeth s complex ambitions extend beyond the borders of the vast northern region. Among the powerful warlords and their steel games, only Macbeth can unite Scotland and his wife s royal blood is the key to his ultimate success.

Determined to protect her small son and a proud legacy of warrior kings and strong women, Rue invokes the ancient wisdom and secret practices of her female ancestors as she strives to hold her own in a warrior society. Finally, side by side as the last Celtic king and queen of Scotland, she and Macbeth must face the gathering storm brought on by their combined destiny.

From towering crags to misted moors and formidable fortresses, Lady Macbeth transports readers to the heart of eleventh century Scotland, painting a bold, vivid portrait of a woman much maligned by history.

Queen Hereafter

Refugee. Queen. Saint. In eleventh century Scotland, a young woman strives to fulfill her destiny despite the risks…
Shipwrecked on the Scottish coast, a young Saxon princess and her family including the outlawed Edgar of England ask sanctuary of the warrior king Malcolm Canmore, who shrewdly sees the political advantage. He promises to aid Edgar and the Saxon cause in return for the hand of Edgar’s sister, Margaret, in marriage.A foreign queen in a strange land, Margaret adapts to life among the barbarian Scots, bears princes, and shapes the fierce warrior Malcolm into a sophisticated ruler. Yet even as the king and queen build a passionate and tempestuous partnership, the Scots distrust her. When her husband brings Eva, a Celtic bard, to court as a hostage for the good behavior of the formidable Lady Macbeth, Margaret expects trouble. Instead, an unlikely friendship grows between the queen and her bard, though one has a wild Celtic nature and the other follows the demanding path of obligation. Torn between old and new loyalties, Eva is bound by a vow to betray the king and his Saxon queen. Soon imprisoned and charged with witchcraft and treason, Eva learns that Queen Margaret counseled by the furious king and his powerful priests will decide her fate and that of her kinswoman Lady Macbeth. But can the proud queen forgive such deep treachery?Impeccably researched, a dramatic page turner, Queen Hereafter is an unforgettable story of shifting alliances and the tension between fear and trust as a young woman finds her way in a dangerous world.

A Stockingful of Joy

Now readers can enjoy the magical spirit of Christmas with this romantic quartet of stories filled with all the hope and joy of the holiday season.