{"product_id":"the-healers-daughter-moira-macbride-9798199267595","title":"The Healer's Daughter: A Sweet, Clean Scottish Historical Romance. Book 3 of Founders of the Loch.","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe stood in her rain at the half-door for a long time, because he had read about the cottage's threshold the way other men read about sieges, and he wanted to be sure he was crossing it for the right reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSorcha is eighteen at the start of the winter of 1683. She has lived alone at her dead mother's healing cottage since she was sixteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir Eachainn MacRath is twenty-four. He arrives at Sorcha's half-door in November 1683 with a letter of introduction. She reads the letter three times before she lets him in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most careful courtship - two months of long careful tea-table conversations; a fever in the spring; a MacRath name held quietly between her and the country that once burned her mother. A proposal at the half-door, in the rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA note for readers: Eachainn is recalled to Cnoc Ruadh in the late autumn of 1685 by a family illness and dies of plague there before he can return. Sorcha learns by letter. The book's HEA is \u003ci\u003enot \u003c\/i\u003ethe wedding. The HEA is the woman who learns she is worth being loved, and the choice, in the closing chapter, to stay at Beinn Dearg and continue her mother's work alone - because she has been loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue's bittersweet origin story. The third and closing book of \u003ci\u003eFounders of the Loch.\u003c\/i\u003e Sweet-clean. Stand-alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Moira MacBride\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798199267595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.01d","brand":"Moira MacBride","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084235907327,"sku":"9798199267595","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-healers-daughter-moira-macbride-9798199267595","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}