Some Like It Wild

Author: Teresa Medeiros

Pamela Darby and her half-sister, Sophie, are in dire straits. Their mother was a beautiful actress and they've grown up in the theatre, but now it's burned down, killing their mother in the process and leaving the girls alone without a home. When their mother's solicitors delivers to them an old letter that their mother had from the Duchess of Warrick explaining to their mother, an old friend of the duchess, that she was leaving her husband and taking their baby with her in to Scotland, Pamela begins to believe that the fire was no accident and that someone set out to murder their mother for that letter. After all, with the duke offering a reward for the finding of his son and someone who stands to inherit a lot of money if the duke's heir is never found, there are plenty of suspects. With a noble set on making Sophie his mistress, the possibility of reward money and finding clues as to who may have murdered their mother, Pamela and Sophie take to the Highlands in search of the duchess and her son. When they come across news that the duchess died before reaching her family in the highlands Pamela decides that any man of appropriate age and coloring will do, but where to find such a man?

Connor Kincaid is a Highlands highwayman looking for any way he can avenge himself on the English. After the brutal death of his parents at the hands of the English, Connor was left in charge of the clan. After years of leading his clan in dangerous raids, trying to get enough money to rebuild the clan, Connor decides to leave before he brings destruction down on the clan. Now he robs coaches and lives with a band of criminals. When he's told that a carriage with no out-riders and only one coachman will be coming down the road carrying two young English ladies covered in furs and jewelry and likely fat purses, he figured they were ripe for the picking. What he found were cheap furs, paste jewels, nearly empty purses, a pretty young blond, and a feisty, curvy brunet with a gun and a persuasive plan. If they can pull it off not only would it be the ultimate revenge for a Scotsman to steal an entire dukedom, but he might even escape his fate to meet the hangman's noose. Now he just has to keep whoever killed Pamela's mother from killing him and try his damnedest to keep his hands of Pamela ... or talk her in to putting her hands on him.


I loved both of these characters. Pamela was smart, cunning, daring, and funny. She took big risks, with all their lives really, but it payed off. I liked that she had the guts to do everything she did after her mother's death. Connor was every bit Pamela's equal. He was a hardened criminal, but he wasn't unnecessarily cruel and he treated Pamela and her sister with kindness, even when he didn't have reason to. He protected them from his fellow criminals and, though he didn't think he had much to offer her, he didn't fight his feelings for her. In fact, it was a bit the way around later in the story when certain truths are uncovered. Pamela pushes Connor away for his own good, even though this makes them both utterly miserable. The side story with Sophie and the duke's cousin, Crispin, was cute. I felt so bad for Crispin because of how Sophie was treating him. It was obvious he was besotted with her. It was also pretty obvious who murdered Marianne Darby almost from the second you meet the duke and his family. I really enjoyed this book. Both the hero and the heroine where just such fun to watch together. Teresa Medeiros is one of those authors who I can usually count on for a good read.