The Lavender Wife: A Sweet, Clean Scottish Historical Romance. Book 3 of Highland Healers.

"She had been the unlikeliest girl to come up Sorcha's path; she was, twelve years on, the one the country had decided to keep." Una MacRath was nine when her mother died. Her father's brother - a bad-MacRath, the kind the country crosses itself against - sent her up the valley to Sorcha's half-door with a folded blanket and a sealed letter, and never asked after her again. She was fourteen when Sorcha called her apprentice. She was twenty-two when the laird and lady of Cairn Bràigh, asked by the priest at Beinn Dearg, gave her a half-acre of south-facing slope to plant her lavender on. Hamish Drummond is twenty-six. He is the second son of the second-son laird who married for love instead of contract, and he has spent most of his life happily not being his brother - running the home-farm, walking the boundary, keeping the country quiet. He notices Una the way he notices the lambing season: steadily, as a thing that is happening and that requires his attention. A scented kitchen-garden. A laird's son who has not yet been asked what he wants. An apprentice-girl who has been kept by a country that once would not have her. The catalogue's gentlest sweet-clean wedding under an apple tree. The closing book of The Highland Healers trilogy. Book Three of The Highland Healers series. Book Eleven of the Moira MacBride catalogue. Sweet-clean HEA. Stand-alone.