The Curse of Clan Ross Books in Order

The Curse of Clan Ross is where L.L. Muir lets her love of Scottish time travel, family legend, and witchy meddling run a little wild. The books move between the modern world and fifteenth-century Scotland, with the Muir witches acting as catalysts, troublemakers, and occasional puppet masters. If you like portals, prophecy, Highland lairds, and women who do not enter magical situations voluntarily, this series has a lot to offer.

The first books set the tone fast.

In Ross, Jillian MacKay is tricked into the past by two elderly witches who are far more dangerous than they look. There she lands in the orbit of Montgomery Ross, a laird with secrets, duties, and a history tangled up in prophecy. Quinn shifts the focus to Juliet Bell, who is already being hunted in the present before time travel makes things more complicated. Gaspar moves the story into Venice and brings in a hero known as God's Dragon. Later books widen the family and mythology further through Wickham, James, Percy, and beyond.

That means this is not a neat one-couple series. It is a connected family saga.

The ongoing thread is the curse itself, along with the idea that fate keeps dragging the right people into the wrong century. The Muir witches are central to that. They are funny, frustrating, manipulative, and often quite sure they know better than everyone else. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they mostly create chaos and wait to see who survives it.

The setting matters because the series really leans into the contrast between modern habits and older Highland life. That is where some of the humor lives. But the books are not just playing dress-up with time travel. The past is dangerous. Power is local and personal. Choices can trap people for generations. Romance grows out of that pressure, not away from it.

The heroes tend to be protective, proud, and a little overwhelmed by women who do not behave as expected. The heroines are usually walking into serious danger with no decent map and no guarantee that love will get them home safely. That gives the series a pushy, energetic rhythm. Everyone is always one bad decision away from making things worse.

In a good way.

If The Ghosts of Culloden Moor is Muir's sprawling emotional epic, The Curse of Clan Ross is one of her more concentrated time-travel adventures. It still has heart, but it also has tunnels, curses, prophecies, villains, awkward culture clashes, and the sense that history itself might be leaning on the scale. Read it for the magic, stay for the clan politics, and expect the Muir witches to interfere whenever life starts making too much sense.