Recovering from malaria, Iain Macrae returns to Canada to settle affairs after his father's death and finds some correspondence from a distant relative in Scotland. Since his beloved mother's death when he was a teenager, Iain has been detached and self-contained, so he surprises himself by traveling to the Scottish island of Skye to help save his ancestral land and a family who will be displaced by an unscrupulous developer. Louise Maitland meets Iain on the train to Scotland as she is bringing her orphaned nephew and niece to her father on Skye. The two do not have an auspicious meeting, but they keep running into each other, and Louise eventually realizes that Iain's mission includes saving Louise's father's home, and maybe each other as well. Stewart's gentle love story about two lost souls gracefully highlights Skye's rugged beauty and the spirit of the people who live there.
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About the Author
Sally Stewart, born a Londoner but now happily settled with her husband amid the green hills of Somerset, has written numerous short and full-length stories. Many of them reflect her love of history, or were born of places visited in the course of foreign travels.