The Sutherlands of Dornoch Castle Books in Order
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The Sutherlands of Dornoch Castle books in publication order
5 books
To Deceive a Highlander
by Callie Hutton
2022
Laird Haydon Sutherland thinks he is marrying the quiet twin, Elsbeth. Her fierce sister Ainslee switches places on the wedding day, and the false start turns into a battle of wills inside a very real marriage.
To Marry a Highlander
by Callie Hutton
2022
A Highland marriage meant to solve one problem creates several more when pride, clan duty, and attraction pull a reluctant couple together. What begins as strategy soon becomes far more personal.
To Vex a Highlander
by Callie Hutton
2022
A stubborn Highlander meets his match in a woman who has no intention of making life easy for him. Their feud turns complicated when family duty and desire keep forcing them together.
To Yield to a Highlander
by Callie Hutton
2022
Mistaken identity and Highland expectations push a wary heroine into close quarters with a man she cannot quite trust. The more they clash, the harder it becomes to deny the pull between them.
To Charm a Highlander
by Callie Hutton
2023
Accused of causing his father's death, Callum Gunn arrives at Dornoch carrying suspicion and anger. When Lady Donella is injured and old loyalties start shifting, both of them are forced into dangerous new ground.
The Sutherlands of Dornoch Castle books in chronological order
To Deceive a Highlander
by Callie Hutton
2022The Sutherlands of Dornoch Castle, Book 1
To Marry a Highlander
by Callie Hutton
2022The Sutherlands of Dornoch Castle, Book 2
To Yield to a Highlander
by Callie Hutton
2022The Sutherlands of Dornoch Castle, Book 3
To Vex a Highlander
by Callie Hutton
2022The Sutherlands of Dornoch Castle, Book 4
To Charm a Highlander
by Callie Hutton
2023The Sutherlands of Dornoch Castle, Book 5
Series background & context
The Sutherlands of Dornoch Castle is Callie Hutton's medieval Highland romance series, and it leans hard into the things that make that kind of story fun: clan loyalty, arranged matches, feisty heroines, proud lairds, and a castle full of people who have opinions about everybody else's life.
Dornoch Castle is the center of it all.
The books are set in seventeenth-century Scotland, where marriage is never just personal. A bride can strengthen an alliance, calm a feud, or create a brand-new problem before the wedding feast is over. That pressure runs through the whole series. The Sutherland men may think they know what kind of wives they need, but Hutton quickly upends those neat plans. In To Deceive a Highlander, for example, a twin switch turns a practical match into a battle of wills. Other books keep playing with mistaken identity, reluctant marriage, simmering attraction, and the gap between duty and what the heart wants.
The tone is lively more than grim. There are real stakes, land, power, clan reputation, family survival, but the books also have a playful edge. Hutton likes couples who start by arguing, circling each other, or trying to outmaneuver one another. That gives the series a lot of energy. Nobody falls quietly in love here.
Family matters just as much as romance. Brothers, sisters, clan allies, and old enemies all shape the story. The castle setting helps with that because it keeps people in close quarters. Meals, visitors, accidents, family demands, and public expectations all keep pushing the hero and heroine back together, even when they would rather stomp off in opposite directions.
If you like Highland romances with strong heroines, stubborn heroes, and plots built around marriage bargains and clan politics, this series is a good fit. Start with To Deceive a Highlander and read forward. The books are connected by the Sutherland family and their world, so reading in order lets the relationships, rivalries, and shifting alliances land the way they should.
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