Return of the Highlander (2006) (edit title/settings)

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Characters edit see section history

• Arabella (Bella) Ryan: she is a researcher of legends.
• Morvan (Black) MacLean: he was once a great chieftan, feared by many.
• Gregor: Bella's landlord.
• Brian: a friend of Bella's.
• Elaine: Bella's editor.
• Ishbel Macleod: she should have been MacLean's wife.
• Auchry Macleod: he was Ishbel's father and MacLean's neighbor.
• Iain Og: the man with whom Ishbel ran away.
• The Fiosaiche: a powerful witch; she made it possible for MacLean to come back.
• The hag: the guardian of the door that enters the between-worlds.

Quotes edit see section history

• “Once you were too blind to see. Now you will learn what it is not to be seen.”

• “He didn't understand what he was doing here. The Fiosaiche's words meant nothing to him. What wrong must he right? The Highlander never admitted he was wrong, not about anything. Such admissions meant weakness and the Highlander had never been weak. He was a chief, a leader of his clan, a king to his people.”

  Morvan MacLean

• “MacLean remembered how the wee artist shook in his boots while it amused MacLean to play the savage bloodthirsty Highlander. "Boo," he'd longed to say, just to see the wee man wet himself, but he was the chief so he showed some restraint. But the artist had his revenge by making MacLean look as if he were about to reach out of the canvas and throttle someone.”

  Morvan MacLean

• “Words could be cruel. They could continue to cause pain and suffering long after the person who had spoken them was gone.”

  Morvan MacLean

• “Bella wondered if this was really happening. Here she was, standing in the middle of busy Ardloch High Street being groped by a ghostly Highlander, and he was obviously very happy to see her.”

  Bella Ryan

• “MacLean, you're nothing like the legend." "Och, well, I think that must be a good thing,”

  Bella Ryan and MacLean

• “Bella wondered whether she would have to wait here until he turned up, or if she should just go home and hope he would find his own way back. It wasn't as if she could go to the local police station and report him as missing. Missing. Highlander, six feet four inches tall, wearing traditional Scottish dress, two hundred and fifty years old, invisible. Yeah, right.”

  Bella Ryan

• “And then she gave a gasp of laughter, because MacLean, the monster of legend, the black-hearted warrior who killed with one swing of his mighty claidheamh mor , had wrapped his arms around her and was holding her close to his own body. Keeping her warm.”

  Bella Ryan

• “I'll never forget you… us. Mabbe when you look up into the night sky you will think of me looking up, too. Aye, the same sky for both of us.”

  MacLean

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Castle Drumaird: this was Morvan's castle.
• Loch Fasail (Loch FAH-sal): Bella lives near this lake.
• The Cailleach Stones (Cal-yach): a scared place, a doorway into the between-worlds.

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• The Fiosaiche (FISS-ich-uh): a Gaelic Sorceress. She who decides our fate when we die. She can send a soul to the world of the dead or punish them in the between-worlds, or she can return you to the mortal world, as she did with me.
• The each-uisge (Yach-oosh-ka): the water-horse.
• Claidheamh mor (Cl-aiv-mor): a warriors broadsword.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Secrets of the Highwayman.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Sara Mackenzie (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
• Books › Romance › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Gothic

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