PRINCE OF DANGER takes the reader on an incredible journey through the Scottish Isles and Highlands.  Watch as Lady Isobel Macleod and Sir Michael St. Clair fall head over heels.  The problem I have with this story is that the adventure often overshadows the development of the romance.

Lady Isobel isn't one for heading her guardian's advice.  While her sister's husband, Hector, is away, Isobel takes it upon herself to go out riding.  That one little adventure throws her into a world of danger.

Isobel overhears the cries of a grown man, so she heads off to investigate and discovers a group of men torturing another man who has been tied to a tree.  Isobel stands up for this stranger and winds up tied up with the stranger in a dark cave.  Never one to give up, Isobel does a little contortion and gets hold of her knife.  Now freed from the ropes that bind her, Isobel and the stranger escape.

Sir Michael is thrilled to have been rescued, even if he does realize that his rescuer is now in trouble.  They head for safety and somewhere along the voyage, Michael falls in love.

When Isobel's guardian suggests Michael marry Isobel, he is only too happy to oblige.  Isobel, however, knows that marriage is a prison in which she wants no part.

Now, there is plenty of action in PRINCE OF DANGER.  I sat on the edge of my seat waiting for the pair to escape and reach safety.  Amanda Scott does a fantastic job creating that aspect of her book.

It is the romance between Isobel and Michael that isn't as well developed in my opinion.  There are sparks there, but they never reach the soaring heights that I've come to expect in a romance novel.  By the time the couple is married, I felt they'd married more because they were good at bickering and ignoring one another.  I never truly felt that they were head over heels for each other until nearer the end of the novel.

This is not the first in this series, and I have not read its predecessors.  While I think PRINCE OF DANGER stands alone, I think I may have gotten more from this novel had I started from the beginning of the series.