Love romance set in the Scottish Highlands, men in kilts, and a hint of magic? Lake of Destiny is a bewitching exploration of destiny, family, healing, and the often twisted path to love by the award-winning author of COMPULSION.

Helping her eccentric aunt organize a Beltane Festival in a picturesque Highland village seems like the perfect escape from Anna’s second broken engagement and the meltdown that wrecked her legal career. But to succeed, she’ll need to wrangle kilt-wearing villagers, dangerous sheep, meandering dogs, and the reclusive laird who refuses to open his property to the public for the ancient tradition of “Sighting.”

For centuries, Loch Fàil in Balwhither has been known to locals as a ‘thin’ place, one where the veil between worlds peels back on Beltane morning and allows those with pure hearts a glimpse of their true loves. The tradition should draw tourists by the busload, but that’s exactly what Connal MacGregor doesn’t want. For his disfigured daughter, Mairi, the glen has offered an enchanted childhood safely out of the public eye.

Struggling to mediate between the needs of the village and Connal’s desperation to protect his child, Anna finds herself falling in love with all of them: Mairi and Connal, the magical glen, the villagers. But growing closer to Mairi re-opens scars from Anna’s own childhood. Confronting those wounds could finally set her free to love . . . or endanger her every chance of happiness.