Callum and Rebecca are childhood friends until Callum is sent away. After an absence of ten years, he returns to Scotland for revenge and the love of Rebecca. I adored the characters. I loved that the author made Rebecca such a strong woman who could hold her own against Callum. I plan to read some of the other novels in this series. Great historical romance! Thanks to St. Martins Publishing for an ARC of this novel via NetGalley.

Well written and an enjoyable story. I really enjoyed reading this book and look forward to reading more by this author.

Wonderful second chance romance story. I didn't want to put this book down once I started reading it. The characters were great and Callum and Rebecca's story was amazing.

With this story No Ordinary Hero series ends and it looks like the author saved the best story for last.

Reading the blurb, I had doubts about the story in which a brother in law falls for his brother’s widow, even though he may have loved her first. However, as the story progressed and I got to know more of the background to them and their past, I began to understand them and by the end I was truly in their corner.

As usual, I loved the setting, but once more it’s all the characters that make this story fun to read.

If you’re looking for a solid, well written romance with plenty of action and a bit of mystery, this one will fill the bill.

Melanie for b2b

Callum is definitely not your Ordinary Hero. As a young man, he only realizes he's in love with his childhood friend Becca when she agrees to marry his older brother. Cue dramatics... she sends him away with the truth that he's an irresponsible drunkard.

10 years later he's come home from Kentucky, where he's amassed a dynasty of Kentucky whiskey, upon news of the unnatural death of his brother.

Callum and Becca have some great interactions but it was a struggle to get through the first part. My interested did pick up though when they met again.

Suzanne does Hilanders heroes really well and this one is no different. I enjoyed the story and cheered when the villain got his due.

I really liked the premise and the opening hooked me, but then the story really seemed to slow down in the middle and I wasn't as into it. Overall a good book and I liked it, but I didn't love it.

I really enjoyed this! A solid second chance romance, with fun mystery shenanigans, though not quite a lot of angst. The brogue was a little heavy in the dialogue for me, and I wish the heroine’s feelings for Dead Husband had been dealt with a bit more, but overall solid.

**ARC was provided by publisher & did not affect this review**

Author Suzanne Enoch knows how to keep her readers glued to every single page of her book with fully developed characters, rich details and sexual tension between Callum and Becca. I like that her characters aren't perfect and that she spends a great deal of time creating dramatic tension in every interaction between them.

The descriptively written details of the house and surroundings makes the reader feel like they have been transported back in time.

Callum as a youth is hot headed and self involved but his character makes the most forward movement as he works through his life as it was and who he becomes in the present time. This is handled to perfection and I like how she showed his character maturing over time that was believable to this reader.

Becca on the other hand didn't grow as much mentally as she did in her physical form but this makes sense because she was mentally stable at a young age. Her fierceness at protecting those she loves or loved is one of her key character traits.

I felt that the secondary characters completed this book with additional flavor and her daughter specifically caught my heart.

Because I couldn't put this book down I give it 5 STARS.

This was a great second chance romance. Loved the chemistry in between the characters. It took a little bit for me to get into, but once I did, I couldn't put it down.

ARC provided by NetGalley.

A Devil in Scotland is the third book from this fantastic series. I loved the determination and loyalty from the characters. ☆☆☆☆☆ rating.

Callum MacCreith was a foolhardy, drunken younger brother that finally pushed his brother too far. After ten years in America, he hears word that his brother is dead in Scotland and his family's title and lands will go to a distant cousin. The manner of his brother Ian's death makes him instantly feel it was murder, and he vows vengeance. He returns to Scotland to find that his sister-in-law Rebecca, whom he had always loved, had a daughter and they are caught by the very men that Callum had always suspected of treachery to get at the fortune amassed together with Ian and Rebecca's father.

While Callum is obnoxious in the beginning before exiled from his family home, that attitude has changed and his personality deepened over time. Shades of it remain in how imperious he can be at times throughout the novel, but this time it's deliberate. He tries to make himself a target to keep Rebecca and Margaret safe, with the predictable romantic entanglements between him and Rebecca. Margaret is an adorable little girl, and it's easy to see how Callum instantly feels protective of her, even when he suspected Rebecca of being part of the plot to kill Ian. Rebecca, for all the constraints of the Regency period, is strong-willed and determined to do the right thing, as most heroines in these novels are. There are a lot of entanglements regarding the properties within the MacCreith family, the shipping business that was built up, as well as the growing emotional entanglements. Those financial concerns aren't initially brought up in the novel but unfolds over time as Callum discovers the truth about Ian's death as well as the death of Rebecca's father soon after. The final (expected) showdown is satisfying and brings all of the hanging plot threads together in a neat conclusion.

I confess that I delayed reading this book because at the same time that I asked the ARC, I participated in a book club with book 1 of the same series and I did not like the plot very much. But behold, I went there to do my duty, and I swear to you I regretted not having read it soon. What a wonderful book!
The Devil brings a well-constructed plot, full of betrayals, intrigues, mysteries, romance and many Hot moments .... Need I say I loved it? Wow!!!!! .
Becca is a rational girl who knows what is best for her future. She is a very different girl from her great childhood friend Callum who, after going into adolescence, only wants to know about women and partying. Upon discovering an agreement made between his older brother Ian and the leader of the Maxwell clan (someone whom Callum does not trust),he went crazy. Banned from Scotland, Callum creates an empire in America and does not look back.
Years later, he realizes that everything he feared most happened and he decides to return swearing revenge until finding a person that changes his life.
I really enjoyed seeing the change of Callum during his years of exile and how he faced his demons and learned from his mistakes and became a strong and powerful man but with a small weakness.
I loved the special engagements of lovely characters that I can not tell who they are for being a pleasant surprise.
4,5/5 stars

Oh, wow! What a cast of characters in the “pack”! Each one so unique, yet each fiercely loyal to each other! I loved Callum’s struggle with vengeance, love, and his conception of himself., but I especially loved the juxtaposition of his world in America and Scotland—great historical romance.

I voluntarily read an advanced reviewer copy of this book

Rebecca had a very hard decision to make...follow her heart and romantic spirit and marry Callum or being practical and marrying Ian... Unfortunately for Callum drinking and partying doesn't ensure a safe and happy home for any future children...

Callum MacCreath made a very childish mistake and was sent away. While his anger may have made it easier to survive being away from his family and best friend...the death of his brother has him traveling across the sea back to Rebecca

Can Callum convince Rebecca that he's changed and not only can he figure out what happened to his brother but he can also be the man she wished he was many years ago? Read and find out!

Overall this book was pretty good. I liked the honest emotion that was displayed by both characters and I liked how much Callum changed. While not my favorite Suzanne Enoch book it was still a good read.

A grand story!

I loved this story completely. What's not to love, with a strapping hero, a wee loveable bairn called Mags, a wolf, a mop eared lapdog, a widowed heroine, and nefarious conspirators who just don't stand a chance against the highlander returned from the Americas.
Callum MacCreath left Scotland in 1806!for the Americas under a cloud, he returns unwilling in 1816 hell bent on vengeance.
His childhood friend Rebecca, the woman he'd taken for granted is now alone and besieged, unknown to her, poised on the edge of grave danger. She and her daughter Mags are not expecting Callum. My the Sparks do fly! Margaret is a gem, she stole my heart and Callum's. I love that Mags latches onto the idea of being part of the 'pack'. Just a wonderful byplay that allows heaps of opportunities for laughter and adds cachet to an already masterful plot.
Just great fun and lots if swashbuckling where there are no pirates but a Highlander bent on revenge!

A NetGalley ARC

As an avid reader of Historical Romances (with definite bias to Scottish Romances) I was extremely excited to dive into A Devil in Scotland. However my excitement and hope for the novel seemed to have set the bar too high. There was so much going on at once that nothing was properly developed or explained. It was more like a child fighting with an adult and all the reasoning is "because I said so". I did not enjoy it and had a hard time making it through the whole thing. I actually willingly wrote my World Religions paper rather than pick it back up. All of this was quite disappointing as I have read Suzanne Enoch before and found her work to be immersive and enjoyable.

I enjoyed reading this book. I read it in a day. I received an ARC from Netgalley and voluntarily reviewed this book. I highly recommend this book as a great read. SQ

I was provided a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest and fair review.

A second chance with first love

Rebecca loved Callum in her youth, but as Callum was a wild and reckless young man, Rebecca decided that for her future she would be better off married to Callum's staid and steady brother Ian. Flash forward ten years though, Ian has died and Callum returns from America to figure out what the hell happened to his brother. Rebecca's character is exactly what I look for in a heroine. Though she was a bit naive in the beginning, it is evident throughout the story that she is intelligent and has such amazing strength as a female character. Callum also is exactly what I look for in my heroes - while he was intent on protecting Rebecca he always treated her like a partner without being the usual overbearing male "I know best and we're going to do it my way" alpha male. Callum and Rebecca were such a great pair in this novel and it was really wonderful to read. And I loved that the villain from the last three books, including this one, finally got what was coming to him. The plot was ok and was even exciting in parts but this one really was about the love story for me. It was very romantic and I thought the author did a great job of infusing the emotions into the writing.

I usually love things set in the Scottish highlands, but even that is not so well executed in this book. I found it lacked character depth, the story was really bland and the all the investigation around the big mystery was, pardon my bluntness, really dumb. Calum's journey into a family man who doesn't want to kill everybody was also badly developed, because one page he just wants to kill them all and the next he is agreeing with Becca. How come I don't get to see and understand his change of mind?
My suggestion would be to focus less on the perfection of the protagonists and the creation of easy and predictable plot points, but instead develop a story that takes us on a journey with beginning, middle and end. Also, the sex scenes are major things for this kind of book, but these ones could also be improved.