The Skylark’s Secret by Fiona Valpy #DualTime #Romance #WW2 #FridayReads

Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper’s daughter Flora’s remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy’s Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of his disapproving father, the laird’s son falls in love with Flora, and as tensions build in their disrupted home, any chance of their happiness seems

Dark Highland Skies by Lizzie Lamb #NewRelease #Romance

Astrophysicist Halley Dunbar has spent her career searching for the one-in-a-billion exoplanet outside our solar system capable of sustaining life. Required to travel to Lochaber, Scotland to arrange her great-uncle’s funeral, she leaves the world she knows behind and encounters people who make her realise there’s more to life than searching for something that might

Finding Verity by Jenny Loudon #BookReview #FridayReads

An unhappy woman. An unfinished romance. A sense that time is running out… Verity Westwood is a successful London businesswoman whose husband is handsome but selfish. When Edward Farrell, a nomadic American journalist from her past, returns unexpectedly, she is swept by the irresistible desire to fulfil her dreams of working as an artist, like

The Forbidden Promise by Lorna Cook #FridayReads #BookReview #DualTime

Can one promise change the fate of two women decades apart? Scotland, 1940  War rages across Europe, but Invermoray House is at peace – until the night of Constance’s 21st birthday, when she’s the only person to see a Spitfire crash into the loch. Rescuing the pilot and vowing to keep him hidden, Constance finds