THE TRYSTING TREE

by Linda Gillard

  Keir makes no concession to her condition. He’s abrupt to the point of rudeness, yet oddly kind. But can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to “show her the stars”?...

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  UNTYING THE KNOT

  Marrying a war hero was a big mistake. So was divorcing him.

  A wife is meant to stand by her man. Especially an army wife. But Fay didn’t. She walked away – from Magnus, her traumatised war hero husband and from the home he was restoring: Tullibardine Tower, a ruined 16th-century tower house on a Perthshire hillside.

  Now their daughter Emily is getting married. But she’s marrying someone she shouldn’t.

  And so is Magnus...

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  A LIFETIME BURNING

  A BOUQUET OF BARBED WIRE meets THE FORSYTE SAGA in this powerful and haunting novel spanning the 20th century.

  Flora Dunbar is dead. But it isn’t over.

  The spectre at the funeral is Flora herself, unobserved by her grieving family and the four men who loved her. Looking back over a turbulent lifetime, Flora recalls an eccentric childhood lived in the shadow of her musical twin, Rory; early marriage to Hugh, a handsome clergyman twice her age; motherhood, which brought her Theo, the son she couldn’t love; middle age, when she finally found brief happiness in a scandalous affair with her nephew, Colin.

  “There has been much love in this family – some would say too much – and not a little hate. If you asked my sister-in-law, Grace why she hated me, she’d say it was because I seduced her precious firstborn, then tossed him on to the sizeable scrap heap marked ‘Flora’s ex-lovers’. But she’d be lying. That isn’t why Grace hated me. Ask my brother Rory.”

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  THE GLASS GUARDIAN

  Ruth Travers has lost a lover, both parents and her job. Now she thinks she might be losing her mind.

  When death strikes again, Ruth finds herself the owner of a dilapidated Victorian house on the Isle of Skye: Tigh na Linne, the summer home she shared as a child with her beloved Aunt Janet, the woman she’d regarded as a mother. As Ruth prepares to put the old house up for sale, she discovers she’s not the only occupant. Worse, she suspects she might be falling in love.

  With a man who died almost a hundred years ago.

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  CAULDSTANE

  A gothic novel in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart and Victoria Holt.

  “If you live in fear, you fear to live.”

  When ghost writer Jenny Ryan is summoned to the Scottish Highlands by Sholto MacNab – retired adventurer and Laird of Cauldstane Castle – she’s prepared for travellers’ tales, but not the MacNabs’ violent and tragic history.

  Lust, betrayal and murder have blighted family fortunes for generations, together with an ancient curse. As the MacNabs confide their sins and their secrets, Jenny learns why Cauldstane’s uncertain future divides father and sons.

  But someone resents Jenny’s presence. Someone thinks she’s getting too close to Alec MacNab – swordsmith, widower and heir to Cauldstane. Someone who will stop at nothing until Jenny has been driven away. Or driven mad.

  “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Especially a dead woman.

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