She became his reason to live, his reason to love. She owned a temper hot enough to forge the armors of battle or inflame a valiant soldier's passion. He came to Scotland as a conqueror, saw her beauty and was vanquished. Stephen Montgomery was one of the hated English. Highland Velvet is a keeper.Bronwyn MacArran was a proud Scot. Other pluses were the wicked antics of Roger Chatworth and the doomed love story of his brother Brian with the Montgomery’s sole sister. A man can still be an “alpha,” a leader to his people, but that doesn’t mean he has to be an over-bearing, woman-hating douchebag.īronwyn was awful, but her woe-is-me attitude wasn’t enough to overshadow Stephen, who was such a great character that he made this book. I wonder why the terms nice guy and beta male get conflated so often.
He was a real nice guy, the kind of man any woman would be happy to have in real life. “For once, let’s do something together.” Final Analysis of Highland VelvetĪfter over thirty-plus years, Jude Deveraux’s Highland Velvet‘s Stephen Montgomery remains one of my most beloved heroes in romance. If anything, Bronwyn was the “bad” one: she stabbed him on their wedding night she was the one who betrayed Stephen again and again. And he was no wussy male, but a deadly soldier willing to work hard and rethink his value system when faced with contradictions. Heck, he even changed his last name so that her Mac Arran family name wouldn’t die out. He worked his butt off to get the approval of the men in Bronwyn’s clan and had to fight that creepy Roger Chatworth for her hand in marriage, even though they were already betrothed. When Stephen saw Bronwyn for the first time, he fell instantly in love with her. He stayed by her bedside during her painful miscarriage and supported her throughout. Stephen was kind and loving to his sister-in-law, Judith, always taking her side whenever Gavin preferred his evil mistress.
“You’ll regret that! Someday you’ll know that one drop of my blood is more precious than any angry feelings you carry!” In Highland Velvet, Stephen Montgomery was made from the stuff of girlish dreams. Highland Velvet, Jude Deveraux, Arrow, 1984 The Plotįorced into marriage to the English nobleman Stephen Montgomery, Scotswoman Brenna Mac Arran, the leader of her clan, vows to make his life miserable.ĭeveraux’s heroes in the Velvet Series had their bad moments, particularly Gavin, and to a lesser extent, Miles and Raine.
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