The Name of the Glen

Catrìona MacNab is twenty-two when she is sent to a house that used to be hers, to work as a servant for the man who holds it now. Somerled Campbell is forty-three, a former soldier the locals call cold, and he fought on the side that hanged her father. He doesn't know who she is. She intends to keep it that way until she finds the deed her father hid behind the hearthstone. A winter passes: a broken roof, a sick cow, a fever, a hand that trembles in cold weather. They fall in slowly, the way people who have buried someone fall in. When Catrìona finds the deed, Somerled is with her, and the document proves the charge against her father was forged by the sheriff's own office. They ride to Edinburgh together. She comes home married, with her father's name cleared and the deed hanging above the hearth.