Well no, we can not have any good every time ... Having read all the volumes of the series of Highlanders, I can say that this one is by far the worse ... That said, everything is relative, it reads anyway! All Moning novels ingredients are there yet: attractive male characters, romance and more ... Still, I found heroin, Jillian, particularly enervating and silly, but this is not what was asked in the 16th 17th century: be beautiful and shut up? and for me, which spoils the story. Nothing very new in the script, except that there is no "time travel". Even if the story is predictable, it is caught by this "impossible love" to be obviously a happy ending. FYI, there are (some) the two main characters Volume 1 (Beyond the Highland Mist), but the volume can either be read alone.