The Woman at the Door: A Sweet Highland Historical Romance Book 1 of The First Arrivals (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798183643626)

The Woman at the Door

She arrived in the middle of the night wearing a stolen wedding dress, six months pregnant, and running for her life.

Catriona Maxwell is nineteen, English, and desperate when she falls through the gates of Dunloch Keep. She expects nothing more than temporary shelter. What she finds instead is a household where no man is allowed to drag a woman back against her will - and a quiet, steady guard named Hugh who leaves small kindnesses in the stillroom without ever asking for thanks or anything in return.

As Catriona slowly begins to breathe again inside the safety of the keep, she discovers that healing is not a straight line. Hugh never pushes. He simply stays. When he finally asks her to be his wife, Catriona gives him the one thing she thought she would never offer anyone again: the chance to choose. She asks for three months - time to be certain that this time, love will not cost her everything.

The Woman at the Door is the first book in the Sanctuary at Dunloch series, a sweeping 20-book Highland romance saga about women rebuilding their lives inside a place of refuge. For readers who love emotionally rich, trauma-informed Scottish historical romance with patient heroes, resilient heroines, and stories that feel both tender and deeply earned.

Tropes:

• Marriage of convenience
• Slow burn romance
• Trauma recovery / healing romance
• Pregnant heroine
• Runaway bride
• Found family
• Gentle hero / patient hero
• Emotional slow burn
• Second chance at love (for the heroine)
• Clean Highland romance