{"product_id":"leah-left-behind-moira-macbride-9798196678578","title":"Leah Left Behind: A Wholesome, Sweet Scottish Historical Love Story (Book 1 of The Unsuitable Brides series)","description":"\u003cb\u003eHemsworth is the only home Leah MacRae has ever known - but she has never quite felt at home in it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFound twenty-one years ago on the kitchen doorstep, wrapped in a plaid no one recognized, named only by a slip of vellum tucked into her shawl, Leah has lived inside the kindness of the Duchess and the brusque distance of the Laird, building a small good life in the stillroom: feverfew tinctures, mullein for the lung-poultices, a ribbon that has long stopped matching her gown. The kitchen-lasses still call her Leah Left-Behind when she is not in the room. She has, for twenty-one years, allowed herself to expect nothing else. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen word comes that the army is three weeks from home - and with the army, riding back, will be Sir Gavin MacBlair: the dark-eyed, quietly serious knight who once helped a small girl up out of a snowdrift, and who has, by the King's will, become heir to lands the Laird has been keeping for him in trust. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd in the Duchess's voice when she speaks his name, Leah hears a thing she has never been allowed to expect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA husband. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA hall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA name that is not Left-Behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Sir Gavin's hall is broken, the southern lands are in want of mending - and Leah carries, in the bottom of the Duchess's oak chest, a small slip of vellum she has not yet been told the whole truth of. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first novel in The Unsuitable Brides - a sweet, slow, tender Scottish historical romance from Moira MacBride. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTropes\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFoundling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarriage of convenience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSlow burn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFound family + secret-of-birth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Moira MacBride\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798196678578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.99d","brand":"Moira MacBride","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743223329023,"sku":"9798196678578","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/leah-left-behind-moira-macbride-9798196678578","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}