Ride with he Moonlight by Andrea Matthews
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is the second installment of the Thunder On The Moor series and sees the return of Maggie Armstrong and Will Foster as they are resting in a field by his family’s home, after the trials of the past couple of days, they feel they are allowed a little rest, as they go over what had transpired over again, but her family back in Scotland are already planning ways to get her back after the last debacle she caused by the river and making them walk all the way home in stocking feet, he is livid, but he knows that he can’t just ride straight back out and get her, no matter how much Ian Rutherford complains about it and decides to file a bill with the warden against the Fosters instead. Ian is more livid than anything and is worried about what will happen to Maggie in between now and the Day of Truce when the bill will be heard, especially knowing what Bonnie Will is like with the ladies, but he is pacified with the thought of currying favour with the Armstrongs if the worst should happen while she is with him.

As time passes in the Foster household, Maggie and Will are constantly being removed from the others’ presence so that they don’t get up to any mischief under his mothers watch until they have their handfasting and make their union an official one with witnesses. The revelations are not over yet when she finds out that her closest friend and one of her dad’s closest friends are more family than she knew, but that he didn’t know and she couldn’t tell him either, even if the other had died, but knowing that did explain the closeness of the two. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing when someone goes to the warden sooner than expected and tell them about the whole Foster-Armstrong story and what has been happening and so the warden makes the decision that Will Foster will be charged with March Treason for for fraternizing with a Scot and will .be sentenced to hang by the neck until dead.

When word of the charge and sentence reach the Fosters as they go to Hexham on market day, it is decided that Will and Maggie will go into hiding until it has all blown over with one of Will’s brothers who is good at tracking to make it easier for them, they leave with all the haste they can up into the hills, but in his absence, other bills are put against him and as his family refuse to both give up his location or stand in his stead, the decision is made to put opposing bills in to counteract them. When Maggie overhears what the punishment will if Will doesn’t appear, she takes matters into her own hands and heads back home to her family to try and spare will his punishment, even if it means that she has to wed Ian, but when Will is arrested while trying to find Maggie, his family has other ideas and so plans are put into place which are daring and dangerous for them all, but will their plans come to fruition, or will the two be separated and their worst fears come to pass?

This is another fast paced part of the whirlwind which is life for the Border Reivers and not one to be missed.

Reviewed by @roxsannel

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