Hannah Howell ja Lynsay Sands: The eternal Highlander

Toisin kuin luulisi, Hannah Howell ja Lynsay Sands eivät tarjoa yhtä yhdessä kirjoitettua romaania, vaan kaksi samaan fantasiamaailmaan sijoitettua pienoisromaania jotka löyhästi kytkeytyvät toisiinsa: The eternal Highlander (Kensington Books, 2004; ISBN 978-1-4201-3396-7).



Pienoisromaanit yhdistelevät fantasiaa ja historiallista romantiikkaa tavalla joka tuntuu laskelmoidulta. Toisaalta teksti on sujuvaa, ja mukana on jonkin verran yllätyksiäkin, ihan suoraan eivät kirjoittajat ole vampyyreja ja ihmissusia muiden kirjoittajien romaaneista kirjaansa kopioineet.

Writing together for the first time, New York Times bestselling authors Lynsay Sands and Hannah Howell present the darkly passionate story of two men sworn to conquer the hunger that pounds in their blood—and the women who may be their only salvation.

Cathal MacNachton and Connall MacAdie are cousins bound by far more than blood ties and the rugged Highland landscape their clan calls home. The ancient curse of their ancestry has fated them to live by night with an unquenchable thirst that neither can tame. The only thing that can save their souls is marriage to Outsiders—mortals whose untainted blood will weaken the curse in their children and break the chains of fear that have made their clan a breed apart.

Bridget Callan and Eva Caxton are the women who will shape the clan's destiny. Marriage to these strange and mysterious men will rescue each of them from desperate circumstances—and draw them into a web of danger, desire, and intrigue.