A crumbling Highland hotel. A guarded billionaire boss. A storm that leaves no escape.

Evelyn Ross is fighting to keep everything from falling apart. As a single mum, she’s holding together the ageing Lochside Manor in Glencoe while trying to give her young son the one thing she never had – stability.

Then the new owner arrives.

Liam MacTavish, the long-lost MacTavish brother, returns to the Scottish Highlands with ice in his veins and secrets he has no intention of sharing. He’s here to renovate the hotel, fix the finances and avoid emotional entanglements at all costs. Feelings are a liability. Family is a weakness.

Evelyn isn’t impressed by his brooding silence or sharp suits – and her refusal to back down drives Liam to distraction. When a violent spring storm cuts Glencoe off from the outside world and traps them together inside the darkened hotel, their simmering tension explodes into something neither of them can ignore.

By candlelight and through long nights of hard work, Liam’s hard edges begin to crack. The cold, controlled businessman becomes the man who protects Evelyn’s son and makes her heart race. But Liam is convinced he’s poison to any family he touches.

Can Evelyn show a broken hero that real strength means staying?

A cosy, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers Highland romance about second chances, found family, and the love that grows when resistance finally melts.

💙 Enemies to lovers • billionaire redemption • single mum romance
🏔️ Cozy small-town Highlands • winter setting
❄️ Slow burn • forced proximity • found family
🔥 Emotional, romantic, and deeply satisfying