{"product_id":"the-stillroom-bride-moira-macbride-9798198201453","title":"The Stillroom Bride: A Sweet, Clean Scottish Historical Romance. Book 2 of The Highland Healers.","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"The contract was for a year. Neither of them had read it carefully enough to notice it could be renewed.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMairead is twenty-three, Beinn Dearg born and bred, the second of Sorcha's stillroom healer apprentices, and the woman the priest at Beinn Dearg recommends when Sir Lachlan Fraser of Inveralmond writes for help with a still-house his late mother left half-built. The contract is for a year. Mairead packs a small box and rides east to a country she has never seen, with no expectation of staying past the next harvest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSir Lachlan Fraser is twenty-nine. A riding accident at twenty-two left him with a limp he no longer notices except in cold weather. He runs his country quietly, reads more than he ought, and has not - by the calculation of his exasperated steward - \u003ci\u003easked anyone for anything personal\u003c\/i\u003e in seven years. He hires Mairead because the still-house has been needed since his mother died. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA long, careful, almost-silent year. Mairead working in the lime-washed still-house. Sir Lachlan walking past the open door at the same hour each afternoon. A small lavender harvest. A bad cold the laird ought to have known better than to ride home in. A kitchen-table conversation that goes on three hours past supper. The catalogue's quietest courtship, and its tenderest year. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBook Two of \u003ci\u003eThe Highland Healers. \u003c\/i\u003eBook Ten of the Moira MacBride catalogue. Sweet-clean HEA. Stand-alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Moira MacBride\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798198201453\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\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d","brand":"Moira MacBride","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084202057983,"sku":"9798198201453","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-stillroom-bride-moira-macbride-9798198201453","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}