Rebellion by Nora Roberts (1988)

I should have looked at this more closely. Roberts wrote this for Sihouette Books, so it must be one of those formulaic historical romances. Set in Scotland of 1745 with the Scottish heroine Serena MacGregor hating all the English, even her brother's friend Brigham Langston, though he helps the Scottish rebels. You know the rest - they fall in love and live happily ever after.

This would have been a wonderful opportunity to explain this historical time and the disagreement between the English and Scotts, but instead there is just the romance floating though this unexplained hatered. There were a few interesting parts for me - the herbal healer, and the way the "rebellion" was organized. They had to convince the farmers to fight, though the chances of survival and/or winning were small. I was glad to see that many were reluctant to go fight against the larger English force. The military strategy also was not well thought out. For some reason military strategy has caught my attention in a few books over the past few years - Churchill's brilliance as a tactician, Hitler's learning military strategy as a child organizing his schoolmates, good behind the scenes planning by Mary, Queen of Scotts (I think) and the poor planning of timing and supplies by one of the English kings in Philippa Gregory's book.