The Kept Lane (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798264529481)

The Kept Lane is a cozy, slow-burn Highlands romance about a village that keeps its people with useful kindness, a loch that offers a steady lane inside the Isle of Ewe, and a very good dog who never loses the way home.

On a quiet shore along Loch Ewe, Alison arrives "for a while" and discovers a village with its own gentle grammar: stew before speeches, knots before pride, and chairs moved by an inch that save a day. The island's shoulder keeps the inner water calm; the hall keeps warmth and stories; and Jess-the golden Lab who reads fog and hearts-keeps everyone pointed home. When a storm turns the mouth of the loch into a long night of listening and relay calls, the village holds its breath together: a rugged fisherman who trusts the lee, a bar that becomes a lighthouse, a hall that turns soup into courage, and a woman who learns exactly what it means to be kept.

• Slow-burn, clean romance set in the Scottish Highlands

• Found family, village warmth, storm-night rescue

• Dog-forward heart (Jess), coastal atmosphere, gentle humor

• For readers who love small-town cozies, lamplight rooms, and sea-salt air

If sea air, useful kindness, and love told softly are your language, welcome in to The Kept Lane-where the lane inside the island's shoulder is as steady as the hearts who choose it.