If You Dare (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Courtland MacCarrick: "Court" - Highlander; A mercenary; Nearly six and a half feet tall; Has black hair and black eyes flecked with silver and a star shaped scar on his face; Thirty years old. The younger of the three MacCarrick brothers, but not the most rutheless. Hired by Pascal to train and help his group of deserters.
• Annalía Llorente: "Anna" or "Lady Annalía" or "Annalía Elisabet Catherina Tristán Llorente" - Noble heiress; Pascal’s Castilian fiancée; Has dark curly hair and hazelgreen eyes; Twenty-one years old; Five and a half feet tall with a tiny frame. Saves MacCarrick from a river near her Andorian home. Afraid to will become like her mother and her whorish ways.
• Ethan MacCarrick: Courtland's eldest brother; A fearsome man in both looks and deed; Has a twisted scar on his face. His fiance died the night before their wedding, believed because of the curse.
• Hugh MacCarrick: Courtland's older brother; Has black hair and dark eyes. Has lusted/longed after Jane Wayland, a childhood friend, and has not seen her for ten years. A skilled killer, who works as an assasin for the crown, works under Mr. Wayland, Jane's father.
• Aleixandre Llorente: "Aleix" or "Aleixandre Mateo Llorente" - Annalía's older brother; Has a tall build; Has somber, golden-colored eyes. He's very protective of her, and knows his sister well, that she will do stupid things to save the people that she loves.
• Mariette Llorente: Aleixandre's wife; Died giving birth to Aleixandre's daughter (their first child). In a deeply loving relationship with Aleix Llorente.
• Niall MacCarrick: Courtland's cousin. Often is a voice of reason for Court, and can read him very easily.
• Gavin MacKriel: The oldest of Courtland's band
• MacTiernay: The one-eyed giant
• Liam: The youngest of Courtland's band; Nineteen years old
• Fergus: "The Sleeping Scot"
• MacMungan Brother # 1: One of Courtland's men
• MacMungan Brother # 2: One of Courtland's men
• Vitale leVieux: Annalía's steward; Has crinkly gray hair. Annalis met him in France, and they became friends. Now a father figure to her, they have an unusual relationship, believed that he taught Annalia sarcasm.
• Elisabet Tristán Castile: Annalia'a mother; The daughter of a spanish princess. Banished for her affair as a young woman to Andorra where she married Llorente and had her two children Aleix and Annalia.
• Nicolás Beltrán: Elisabet's one & only true love. The man that she was caught with on several occasions, and who came for her when Annalia was little.
• Fiona MacCarrick: "Lady Fiona" - Courtland's mother; A beautiful redhead. Sad about the curse the plagues her family. Somewhat blames her sons for the death of her husband.
• Leith MacCarrick: Courtland's father. Died when Court was 12, shortly after the boys read the curse in the book of fate.
• Sarah MacReedy: Ethan's nineteen year old fiancée; Died mysteriously the night before the wedding
• Jane Weyland: Girl Hugh has been in love with for years
• Edward Weyland: Jane's father
• Otto: Prussian
• Olivia Pascal: Pascal’s daughter
• Ysobel Olivia: Olivia's mother
• Dr. Molyneux: French doctor. Looked after Annalia after she was shot. Thought by MacCarrick that he was too young to be considered a sutible doctor.
• John Groot: Innkeeper; A gangly Englishman with ruddy skin and no visible chin; A retired sharpshooter and weapons expert
• Mrs. Groot: John's new wife; A bonny French matron
• Coachy: Coach driver
• Erskine: MacCarrick family butler in London
• Reynaldo Pascal: General; Spanish deserter; Very handsome with thick, dark hair. Supposed fater of Olivia, forces Annalia to agree to marry him, by kidnapping and holding her brother in prison
• Ruiz the Scarred: A Rechazado. Attacked Court and Anna on the road. Anna hit him in the head with a rock, then killed by Court after sharing information.
• Queen Isabella: Queen of Spain
• Iambe: Annalía's horse
• Chiron: The ranch’s primary stud

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• Carrickliffe, Scotland: Year 1838
• Andorra: The Principality of Andorra; Year 1856; High in the Pyrenees
• Castile, Spain
• Riu Valira: River
• Casa del Llac: Annalía's home
• Paris, France
• The Vines: "Les Vinges" - Boarding School in Fontainebleau
• Fontainebleau, France
• Ordino, Andorra
• Beinn a’Chaorainn: Courtland's run-down estate in Scotland
• University of Cambridge
• Toulouse, France
• Ariège River
• London, England
• Burgundy, France
• Calais, France

Organizations edit see section history

• Orden de los Rechazados: Order of the Disavowed; Legendary assassins; Have cross tattoos on their arms
• House of Castile: Royal Spanish family

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Glossary edit see section history

• Leabhar nan Sùil-radharc: The Book of Fates
• Mo cridhe: My heart

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by If You Desire.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Kresley Cole (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 2347 vol. 12
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Sexual content

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Cole, Kresley
• Books › Romance › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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• Author's Website

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