Review: The Highlander Next Door (Spellbound Falls #6) by Janet Chapman

From the New York Times bestselling Janet Chapman comes this delightful tale of a young woman who’s had enough of men…until she meets her spectacular new neighbor.

Legend has it love is carried on the rising mists of Spellbound Falls, and not even time-traveling highlanders are immune to its magic…

Birch Callahan has seen the trouble men can cause. After witnessing her mother’s four marriages, Birch now runs a women’s shelter and doesn’t want a man in her life. But there’s something about her neighbor, Niall MacKeage. Birch can’t figure out how the cop can be so big and gruff and yet so insightful and compassionate—and sexy. Or how she’s falling for a man who acts like someone from the twelfth century.

Niall knows that Birch is attracted to him, even if she seems to distrust all men. Yet he also knows she has a secret—something that drives her to place herself in harm’s way for the women of her shelter. Niall would gladly rush to Birch’s side to protect her from harm, but with their secrets standing between them, he’ll have to reveal his own truth if he wants to keep her.

Series: Chapman Falls #6
Release Date: 08/26/2014
Publisher: Jove Books
Source: Publisher
Reviewer: Sheri
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Birch Callahan has her reasons not to trust men, and she runs a women’s shelter so she sees the worst of relationships all the time. She’s unprepared when Niall starts courting in his understated way.

Niall is a man out of time, he’s a highland warrior from the twelfth century who is trying to be a lawman in a time where law is not as cut and dry as it was in his time. He’s not used to the time and the new ways of dating. He does know he wants Birch. I enjoyed the way Niall has to overcome and learn about the present in order to get Birch to fall in love with him.

This story still has all the magic I’ve come to expect from Spellbound Falls and Ms. Chapman, but it took a backseat other than Niall being from the past. We get a bit of magic and new god involvement, but even with those elements it wasn’t too much magic involved with all aspects. This is probably because neither Birch nor Niall are magic users. I really enjoyed being back in Spellbound Falls and catching up with past characters. I do hope there are more stories to come, and that Birch’s mom finds her happily ever after too.