The Highland Kiss

<p><strong>Minutes before my wedding a phone call from my fiancé rips my life apart.</strong></p><p>I flee to the Scottish Highlands seeking sanctuary in Bannock an idyllic town I visited as a child.</p><p>All I want is peace and quiet to mend my broken heart. Instead I lock horns with the grumpy Scotsman who runs my hotel.</p><p>I don't recognise him at first but it turns out he's Alasdair McIntyre the first boy I ever kissed.</p><p>As a twelve-year-old he was sweet but now? His blunt remarks and cocky smirks infuriate me while my comebacks only reinforce his view I'm a stuck-up big-city lass.</p><p>I came here to heal not be provoked by this irritatingly handsome Highlander. Yet beneath his gruff exterior and admittedly impressive muscles there are glimmers of another side to the man.</p><p>I mustn't let my guard down. My heart is already cracked. If I let him in I risk shattering it altogether...</p><p>---</p><p><strong><em>The Highland Kiss</em> is the first in the <em>True Scotsman</em> series of interconnected standalones.</strong></p><p>Discover the small town of Bannock with its quirky inhabitants laugh at the banter of the McIntyre brothers and swoon at <em>that</em> scene in the castle ruins in the rain. ??</p>