Connal (Immortal Highlander Clan MacMar Book 1): A Scottish Time Travel Romance by Hazel Hunter

Author:Hazel Hunter [Hunter, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

Walking with the laird proved to be a bit quieter than Valerie had imagined, as Connal said almost nothing unless she asked him a question. His terse answers suggested he wasn’t in the mood to talk, so she fell silent and simply let the fresh air and peaceful calm of the trees soak in.

As they made their way through the beautiful forest she saw a startling amount of biodiversity. Dozens of different birds and small mammals made their home among the willows, and seemed completely unafraid of her and Connal. A few small rabbits even hopped up to the edge of the trail to watch them pass by.

“The baby bunnies are adorable,” Valerie said, smiling down at a trio of brown and black kits so tiny they could fit on her palm.

Once they emerged from the trees they crossed a wide glen where a large herd of sheep grazed among the knee-high grasses. Near the hills to the north Valerie also spotted a smaller group of gray-faced deer, which seemed to hear them right away and bounded off into a pine grove. What she hadn’t yet seen was the other side of the island.

“How large is Caladh?” she asked the laird as they crossed a small stone bridge built over a pretty creek running through the glen.

“The clan’s never measured the shoreline, but should you walk round the edges, I reckon ’twould take a moon and a half from beginning to end,” Connal said.

“A healthy person can walk twenty miles a day.” She knew in clanspeak a moon was roughly a month, and did some quick calculations. “That works out to be about nine hundred square miles. A little smaller than Rhode Island.”

“You dwelled on an island in your time?” he asked.

“No, that’s the name of a state in my country. It’s not too far from New York.” She’d lost him, she saw. “At least that explains why I can’t see the other side. Your island is huge.”

He nodded. “Upstate New York, ’tis large as well?”

“Much bigger.” She tried to think of how to describe it. “Where I live there are three mountain ranges nearby, and so much forest it blankets the land in green. Most of the towns are small, and the people who live there are close to each other, a bit like your clan––everyone knows everyone. During the fall, when the leaves turn colors, it’s as if someone repainted the country in gold, orange and scarlet.”

To Valerie’s surprise talking about home didn’t bother her. She missed her students, but not the house she’d shared with Dale and all the material things they’d accumulated over the years. He had always been a pack rat, while she had preferred to live without clutter. She reached up and touched her locket, dismayed by how little she actually cared about what she had left behind in the future.

Maybe I’m more suited to living in the twelfth century.

The trail rolled over a ridge in the glen, and on the other side she saw dozens of cottages nestled among a clearing filled with wildflowers.

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