What The Glen Keeps: Wester Ross, 1899.
Ewan MacLean has spent two years turning himself to stone. Since his wife's death, he has built walls, mended dykes, and carved headstones for a glen that has learned to leave him to his silence. He does not expect his advertisement for a housekeeper to bring him anything but a steady pair of hands.
Rona Wallace has spent three years learning exactly how much a predatory man can take from a woman with nowhere left to turn. When Murray MacKenzie's blackmail closes the last door in Edinburgh, she buys a one-way ticket north, looking not for romance but for a fortress.
What she finds is a remote stone croft, a silent, guarded man, and a Highland winter that will not let either of them hide for long.
Slowly, through storms and firelight and the small unguarded moments of two lives forced into proximity, warmth finds its way into rooms that had forgotten how to hold it. But Edinburgh has not finished with Rona yet. When the past finally reaches north in a solicitor's careful hand, Ewan must decide exactly what he is willing to spend, and to risk, to keep what he has only just allowed himself to want again.
What The Glen Keeps: is a slow-burn Highland romance about the particular courage it takes to let someone in after the walls have already gone up, and about a landscape that keeps every secret entrusted to it, patiently, permanently, and for exactly as long as it takes.
