When a plaid is delivered to the MacAllister clan, everything indicates it belonged to the brother lost in the crusades, Kieran MacAllister. His brother Lochlan had believed him dead, so now he begins a search that will take him to France and England to find the truth for him self. He wonders why his brother had faked his death, and how had the plaid come into the hands of a Frenchman. 

When he meets Catarina, a woman linked to his family by marriage, she is in need of rescue and Lochlan is the man for the job. Catarina is feisty and annoyed because her father is trying to use her as a pawn to link with another noble house. Escaping from her captors they are then both captured, but find it is somebody Catarina knows well. They are two brothers and a sister, thrown out and disinherited, when their father was branded a traitor. Joining forces with the three young travellers, they arrive at a tourney where even more skulduggery is afoot.  

THE WARRIOR is an interesting and often amusing romp, through a Europe where anything including death can follow you. The placid Lochlan made a very likeable hero, one who managed to keep Catarina out of harms way on many occasions. Chased across country by brigands, wrathful knights and her father’s soldiers, they encounter many obstacles to over-ride. The dialogue was well done and the story-line flowed well, with more than enough conflicts to keep the stories flow. 

Ms. Macgregor has a quaint and delightful way of torturing her characters, whilst bringing this quite violent era vividly back to life. It had me turning pages to see what would happen next to the little band of travellers, as they help Lochlan with his search. I hadn’t read any of the previous books about the Brotherhood, but it didn’t stop me enjoying this book at all.  

I recommend this book if you like brave knights, feisty heroines and page turning adventures that even Indiana Jones would have stepped back from.

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