# Read the first page of Mad for the Plaid by Karen Hawkins Read the opening of Mad for the Plaid by Karen Hawkins free, no signup. A Highland estate, a kidnapping, and an uneasy alliance. - Page: https://uncovered.ink/read/mad-for-the-plaid-karen-hawkins - Genre: Highland romance - Year: 2016 - ISBN: 9781476786018 - Read it blind (cover and title hidden): https://uncovered.ink/?b=9781476786018&s=read-page - Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/125786/9781476786018 - Borrow: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=9781476786018 ## The opening Your Highness, As you may recall, two weeks ago you escorted the Grand Duchess Natasha Nikolaevna to Castle Leod for her visit with my grandmother, the Dowager Countess Cromartie. I’m sorry we did not have the opportunity to meet, but that is not surprising, as I was informed you stayed less than ten minutes. Soon after you left, your grandmother discovered her black leather travel case was not with her trunks. Her Grace assures me it is quite important and that she must have it with all possible haste and thus requests that you send it at your earliest convenience. Yours sincerely, Lady Ailsa Mackenzie September 12, 1824 To: Lady Ailsa Mackenzie Castle Leod Lady Ailsa: Pray inform my grandmother that the “case” to which she refers is actually a very large and heavy trunk and would take well over a fortnight to ship, by which time her visit will be over. She can do without it. HRH Nikolai of Oxenburg September 21, 1824 To: His Royal Highness Prince Nikolai Romanovin of Oxenburg Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh Your Highness, Once again I am writing on behalf of your grandmother the Grand Duchess Nikolaevna. Her Grace requests (again) that you send her black leather case which contains her favorite lotions as soon as possible (again), for she has great need of them (still). As she has decided to stay another month and perhaps longer, there is now plenty of time to have the case (or trunk, if you insist) delivered. Yours sincerely, Lady Ailsa Mackenzie October 2, 1824 To: Lady Ailsa Mackenzie Castle Leod Lady Ailsa: I was not aware Her Grace was staying another month and (hopefully) longer. I cannot tell you how happy I am to learn this. Expect that blasted trunk in the next week or so. HRH Nikolai October 11, 1824 To: His Royal Highness Prince Nikolai Romanovin of Oxenburg Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh Your Highness, I regret to inform you that Her Grace’s black dressing case containing her lotions still has not arrived and your grandmother strongly requests that you send it immediately. She wishes me to remind you that it has been one week and two days since your letter was posted. (On an aside, I did point out that your use of “next week or so” was obviously a generalization and that the case would most likely show up before this letter arrives on your desk, but she will have none of it.) As I’m sure you are aware (as evidenced by your rapid departure on leaving your grandmother on our doorstep), Her Grace tends to be moody when she is upset. Send the case or trunk or whatever it is as soon as is humanly possible. Yours sincerely, Lady Ailsa Mackenzie October 21, 1824 To: Lady Ailsa Mackenzie Castle Leod Lady Ailsa: When my men fetched the trunk from Her Grace’s bedchamber last week, my men discovered something dripping out of one corner. Upon opening the trunk, we were met with a smell I cannot describe, even though it still lingers throughout the house like a deadly mist. The trunk is not a “dressing case” filled with lotions as my grandmother has claimed, but is filled instead with her potions. One letter can make a great difference, can it not? Sadly, some of the bottles holding her potions were broken when the trunk was last moved, and I can only imagine her “eye of newt,” or whatever it is, has caused that deadly odor. ## Books with a similar feel - [On a Highland Shore by Kathleen Givens](https://uncovered.ink/read/on-a-highland-shore-kathleen-givens.md) - [Catch Her If You Can by Tessa Bailey](https://uncovered.ink/read/catch-her-if-you-can-tessa-bailey.md) - [Love Arranged by Lauren Asher](https://uncovered.ink/read/love-arranged-lauren-asher.md) - [Icebreaker by Hannah Grace](https://uncovered.ink/read/icebreaker-hannah-grace.md) - [Always Only You by Chloe Liese](https://uncovered.ink/read/always-only-you-chloe-liese.md) - [Savor It by Tarah DeWitt](https://uncovered.ink/read/savor-it-tarah-dewitt.md) --- Source: Uncovered (https://uncovered.ink). A short sample shown for reading and discovery. Rights holders can request removal at https://uncovered.ink/takedown.