Foreign Lander : A Novel

After unimaginable loss, a woman returns to her grandmother’s cottage in Scotland—where a forgotten childhood, an infuriating neighbor, and a country that feels like home conspire to make her whole again. When Blythe Moncreiffe returns to Scotland to inherit her grandmother’s cottage, she’s lost her daughter, her marriage, her photography career, and her sense of self. Glansing Cottage is all Blythe has. That and a temperamental oil-fired stove, mystery creatures in the attic, a bossy hen—and Lucas MacGregor, her disagreeable, infuriatingly handsome neighbor. Lucas works for a duke who plans to seize Blythe’s inheritance, and she’s not about to lose another piece of her past, no matter how good Lucas looks in his kilt. But Lucas has never forgotten those long-ago summers and his infatuation with the American girl next door. Caught between his job and his heart, he finds himself falling hard for the woman Blythe has become. Guided by handwritten notes Gran left behind, Blythe is piecing herself back together, never imagining that the arch-rival next door might just help her rediscover a life worth reclaiming.