The Stillroom Bride: A Sweet, Clean Scottish Historical Romance. Book 2 of Highland Healers.

"The contract was for a year. Neither of them had read it carefully enough to notice it could be renewed." Mairead is twenty-three, Beinn Dearg born and bred, the second of Sorcha's stillroom healer apprentices, and the woman the priest at Beinn Dearg recommends when Sir Lachlan Fraser of Inveralmond writes for help with a still-house his late mother left half-built. The contract is for a year. Mairead packs a small box and rides east to a country she has never seen, with no expectation of staying past the next harvest. Sir Lachlan Fraser is twenty-nine. A riding accident at twenty-two left him with a limp he no longer notices except in cold weather. He runs his country quietly, reads more than he ought, and has not - by the calculation of his exasperated steward - asked anyone for anything personal in seven years. He hires Mairead because the still-house has been needed since his mother died. A long, careful, almost-silent year. Mairead working in the lime-washed still-house. Sir Lachlan walking past the open door at the same hour each afternoon. A small lavender harvest. A bad cold the laird ought to have known better than to ride home in. A kitchen-table conversation that goes on three hours past supper. The catalogue's quietest courtship, and its tenderest year. Book Two of The Highland Healers. Book Ten of the Moira MacBride catalogue. Sweet-clean HEA. Stand-alone.