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Can you imagine the Loch Ness Monster a human by day and a monster by night? And a male one at that? In UNDER LOCH AND KEY, Lana Ferguson stretches her imagination and our credulity with this delightful romp featuring not just one fantastical creature, but two.
When Keyanna MacKay goes to Scotland after her father's death, she's not just taking his ashes to Loch Ness to be spread on the lake as he wished. She's also trying to find the only family she has left in the world. But after her grandmother's fairly icy reception, Keyanna (who goes by Key) might not be staying long. She already has met Lachlan Greer after he saved her from falling on the rocks by the Loch. When he is decidedly distant after hearing her name, she thinks it’s a shame that a handsome guy like him could be such a jerk.
"...[a] delightful romp featuring not just one fantastical creature, but two.... [T]here's also love and affection, a sweet story, three-dimensional characters and a happily-ever-after ending."
Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, Lachlan works on Key's grandparents’ farm, so it's only a matter of time before they meet again. And again. There are definitely sparks that flare between them. While Key is trying to figure out why her father left Scotland to live in New York and rarely spoke of his life there, Lachlan is also searching for something. Key admits to Lachlan that her father shared something that happened to him as a child. When he fell in the Loch, the Loch Ness Monster saved him. History repeats itself when Lachlan rescues Key from just such a monster.
But there's a lot more to the backstories of both Key and Lachlan. And it's when they decide to join together to try to figure out how to solve the mystery of what happened over seven centuries previously that things get even stranger.
There's plenty of regrettable history between their two families and lots of reasons for that bad blood. Will the affection and connection between Key and Lachlan be enough to overcome the curse from the past? Will they find a way to deal with the magic that neither of them asked for but that lies heavy on their shoulders?
UNDER LOCH AND KEY is not a deep philosophical novel. There are no thorny world problems to be dealt with. Instead, it’s a light romance filled with fantasy and lots of sex. There's a reason that many of the blurbs for Ferguson's books use the words "steamy" and "smutty." They are. And this one is no exception. But there's also love and affection, a sweet story, three-dimensional characters and a happily-ever-after ending. This is exactly what one expects in a romantasy, and Ferguson delivers in spades.
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Following the death of her father, Keyanna “Key” MacKay finds herself thrust into the world he’d always refused to speak of. With just a childhood bedtime story about a monster that saved her father’s life and the name of her estranged grandmother to go off of, Key has no idea what she’ll find in Scotland. Lachlan Greer has his own secrets to keep, especially from the bonnie lass he pulls to safety from the slippery shore. He’s looking for answers as well, and Key’s presence on the grounds they both now occupy presents a real problem. It’s even more troublesome when he gets a front row seat to the lukewarm welcome Key receives from her family and the strange powers she begins to develop. When their secrets collide, it becomes clear that Lachlan could hold the answers Keyanna is after --- and that she also might be the key to uncovering his.
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Following the death of her father, Keyanna “Key” MacKay finds herself thrust into the world he’d always refused to speak of. With just a childhood bedtime story about a monster that saved her father’s life and the name of her estranged grandmother to go off of, Key has no idea what she’ll find in Scotland. Lachlan Greer has his own secrets to keep, especially from the bonnie lass he pulls to safety from the slippery shore. He’s looking for answers as well, and Key’s presence on the grounds they both now occupy presents a real problem. It’s even more troublesome when he gets a front row seat to the lukewarm welcome Key receives from her family and the strange powers she begins to develop. When their secrets collide, it becomes clear that Lachlan could hold the answers Keyanna is after --- and that she also might be the key to uncovering his.
About the Book
A woman discovers that not all monsters are her enemy --- the opposite, in fact --- in this new paranormal romance by Lana Ferguson, author of THE FAKE MATE.
Keyanna “Key” MacKay is used to secrets. Raised by a single father who never divulged his past, it’s only after his death that she finds herself thrust into the world he’d always refused to speak of. With just a childhood bedtime story about a monster that saved her father’s life and the name of her estranged grandmother to go off of, Key has no idea what she’ll find in Scotland. But repeating her father’s mistakes and being rescued by a gorgeous, angry Scotsman --- who thinks she’s an idiot --- is definitely the last thing she expects.
Lachlan Greer has his own secrets to keep, especially from the bonnie lass he pulls to safety from the slippery shore --- a lass with captivating eyes and the last name he’s been taught not to trust. He’s looking for answers as well, and Key’s presence on the grounds they both now occupy presents a real problem. It’s even more troublesome when he gets a front row seat to the lukewarm welcome Key receives from her family; the strange powers she begins to develop; and the fierce determination she brings to every obstacle in her path. Things he shouldn’t care about, and someone he definitely doesn’t find wildly attractive.
When their secrets collide, it becomes clear that Lachlan could hold the answers Keyanna is after --- and that she might also be the key to uncovering his. Up against time, mystery and a centuries-old curse, they’ll quickly discover that magic might not only be in fairy tales, and that love can be a real loch-mess.
Audiobook available, read by Samantha Summers and Flint Park
