The MacLean Curse

About The MacLean Curse

The MacLean Curse follows the Scottish MacLean clan, cursed generations earlier so that no MacLean can find happiness in love until fate forces the match -- a premise Karen Hawkins uses to power five interconnected Highland romances plus a prequel. How to Abduct a Highland Lord (2007) and To Scotland, With Love (2007) launch the series, followed by To Catch a Highlander (2008), Sleepless in Scotland (2009) and The Laird Who Loved Me (2009) as successive MacLean siblings and cousins each get their turn fighting -- and eventually succumbing to -- the family curse. Much Ado About Marriage (2010) closes the series as a prequel explaining how the curse began, also doubling as book zero of Hawkins' companion Hurst Amulet series, since the amulet at that series' center is the object the curse becomes entangled with.

Much Ado About Marriage began life as Hawkins' actual first written manuscript, published in 2000 under the pseudonym Kim Bennett as One Lucky Lord for Love Spell's Wink and a Kiss line; Hawkins revised and re-released it in 2010 to explicitly tie the MacLean Curse's origins into the newer Hurst Amulet series.