A Swoony and Magical Enemies to Lovers Romance with Nessie within the Scottish Highlands (iykyk)
Underneath Loch and Key
Paranormal Romance, Romantic Comedy
Berkley
December 3, 2024
e-book, paperback, audiobook
415
A girl discovers that not all monsters are her enemy—the other, actually—on this new paranormal romance by Lana Ferguson, creator of The Pretend Mate.
Keyanna “Key” MacKay is used to secrets and techniques. Raised by a single father who by no means divulged his previous, it’s solely after his dying that she finds herself thrust into the world he’d all the time refused to talk of. With only a childhood bedtime story a few monster that saved her father’s life and the identify of her estranged grandmother to go off of, Key has no thought what she’ll discover in Scotland. However repeating her father’s errors and being rescued by a stunning, indignant Scotsman—who thinks she’s an fool—is certainly the very last thing she expects.
Lachlan Greer has his personal secrets and techniques to maintain, particularly from the bonnie lass he pulls to security from the slippery shore—a lass with charming eyes and the final identify he’s been taught to not belief. He’s searching for solutions as properly, and Key’s presence on the grounds they each now occupy presents an actual drawback. It’s much more troublesome when he will get a entrance row seat to the lukewarm welcome Key receives from her household; the unusual powers she begins to develop; and the fierce willpower she brings to each impediment in her path. Issues he shouldn’t care about, and somebody he positively doesn’t discover wildly enticing.
When their secrets and techniques collide, it turns into clear that Lachlan may maintain the solutions Keyanna is after—and that she may also be the important thing to uncovering his. Up towards time, thriller, and a centuries previous curse, they’ll shortly uncover that magic won’t solely be in fairy tales, and that love could be a actual loch-mess.
What’s it about Lachlan Greer that makes me act like a twelve-year-old?
It ought to come as no shock {that a} romantic comedy that includes a Loch Ness Monster shifter and his enemies to lovers love curiosity checked each single one among my containers. I’ve but to satisfy a novel by Lana Ferguson that I didn’t instantly adore, and Underneath Loch and Key isn’t any totally different. Keyanna and Lachlan’s romance begins off as enemies to lover’s however shortly turns into the swooniest and romantic romance within the Highlands. When there’s a curse that has lasted tons of of years, can it stand up to a love that’s seemingly future?
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Readers begin Underneath Loch and Key by assembly our FMC Keyanna, aka Key. After the dying of her father, Key’s decided to satisfy his dying want: to have his ashes sprinkled within the cove the place he claims he got here nose to nose with the Loch Ness Monster as a younger man. This additionally signifies that Key surprises a household that she’s been estranged from since beginning. An American in a small Scottish Highland city doesn’t essentially mesh properly.
“So have you ever all the time been…” She waves her hand in a circle as if looking for the phrase. “A monster?”
“No,” I reply dryly. “A witch gave me a magic apple after I pissed in her roses.”
Loch Ness Monster gif through Tenor
Key’s welcome is lower than heat. Her grandmother has as a lot chunk as unaged Highland whisky, whereas her grandfather is a bit hotter in her welcome. Their farm helper, Lachlan makes his emotions well-known to her, and even the native pub offers her the run round when she seems for assist. It’s solely when Key has her personal run-in with the Loch Ness Monster that her standoff with Lachlan eases right into a partnership decided to interrupt a curse.
As enjoyable as Underneath Loch and Key is, there may be additionally a extra critical facet to it as properly. The theme of grief is a giant undertone and there’s a suspenseful storyline as properly. Altogether Underneath Loch and Key is fast-paced, filled with banter that made my coronary heart so comfortable, and spicy scenes for which Lana Ferguson has turn into identified.
I hate how fucking beautiful she seems when she’s being a ache in my arse.
In the event you liked The Pretend Mate, there isn’t a doubt in my thoughts that you’ll adore Underneath Loch and Key as properly. Filled with enjoyable, so swoony, and completed with a heartfelt HEA, Underneath Loch and Key shall be your subsequent favourite learn.
Jes is a self-proclaimed bookworm, who lately moved from the PNW again to the Midwest. When her nostril isn’t in a ebook, she’s spending time together with her husband, two children, and her three fur infants, or exploring the globe. She additionally firmly believes that it’s best to begin the day with espresso, and finish the day in mattress with an excellent ebook.