Her next novel, Girl in the Castle, reached #3 in the Amazon charts. Although much of her time is taken promoting her novels she published Scotch on the Rocks, which achieved Best Seller status within two weeks of appearing on Amazon. She joined the Romantic Novelists' Association's New Writers' Scheme, wrote Tall, Dark and Kilted (2012), quickly followed by Boot Camp Bride. Faced with the dole queue once more, Fliss resolves to make sexy, infuriating Ruairi revise his unflattering opinion of her, turn the therapy centre around and sort out the dysfunctional Urquharts.After teaching her 1000th pupil and working as a deputy head teacher in a large primary school, Lizzie decided to pursue her first love: writing. He’s determined to pull the plug on the business, bring his eccentric family to heel and eject undesirables from his estate – starting with Fliss. Fliss’s romantic view of the highlands populated by hunky Men in Kilts is shattered when she has an upclose and very personal encounter with the Laird of Kinloch Mara, Ruairi Urquhart.

But there’s a catch – the centre lies five hundred miles away – in Wester Ross, Scotland. When she’s offered the chance to take over a failing therapy centre, she grabs it with both hands. After attending a party in Notting Hill she loses her job and with it her dream of becoming her own boss. įliss Bagshawe longs for a passport out of Pimlico where she works as a holistic therapist. Having been let down by the men in her life, will it be third time lucky for Issy? Is she wise to trust a man she knows nothing about – a man who presents her with more questions than answers? As for Aunt Esme, she has secrets of her own. However, she suspects him of having an ulterior motive for staying at her aunt’s Bed and Breakfast on remote Cormorant Island. In spite of her vow to steer clear of men, she grows to rely on Brodie.

Issy longs for peace and the chance to lick her wounds, but gorgeous, sexy American, Brodie, turns her world upside down. When she arrives at her family home – now a bed and breakfast managed by her left-wing, firebrand Aunt Esme, she finds a guest in situ – BRODIE. After discovering her fiancé playing away from home, she cancels their lavish Christmas wedding at St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh and heads for the only place she feels safe – Eilean na Sgairbh, a windswept island on Scotland’s west coast – where the cormorants outnumber the inhabitants, ten to one. Her wealthy industrialist father has died unexpectedly, leaving her a half-share in a ruined whisky distillery and the task of scattering his ashes on a Munro. ISHABEL STUART is at the crossroads of her life.

Family secrets threaten the future of Brodie and Ishabel.

Tall, Dark and Kilted by Lizzie Lamb