Claiming the Winter Laird

Màiri Sinclair has worked in the castle kitchen for a year and been invisible in it the whole time. It used to be her family's house. She does not intend to remind anyone.\n\nRuairidh MacAllister is forty-three, the laird who took the house, and has spent nine years being disliked by everyone in it including his own daughter. He has decided this is fine.\n\nThen the girl runs away in the snow, and Màiri is the only one who knows where she has gone.\n\nWhat follows is a winter of thawing — a kitchen, a byre, a lawyer's letter, and a young woman who will not be pitied and will not be used.\n\nA Scottish Historical Age Gap Opposites Attract Romance of weather, stubbornness, and the very slow business of coming back into a house that used to be yours.