The Highland Hideaway

Hannah Castle didn't hate Lottie Duvall at university. But she certainly didn't like her. Everything came so easily to Lottie, and with her effortless confidence and her family's money, success seemed inevitable. While Hannah, without a supportive family, had to work for everything. Inevitably, after they graduated, they didn't keep in touch.

20 years on, Hannah is a high-profile broadcast journalist. Divorced and working in a male-dominated environment, she takes no prisoners. After breaking the story of her life, she escapes to a hotel in the Scottish Highlands where nobody knows her. Her heart sinks when she spots Lottie working behind the bar. But why is she there?

Lottie's glittering legal career never got off the ground, thanks to a family tragedy that changed her life forever. For years she's prioritised other people's needs over her own and the last thing she needs is a notorious ice maiden like Hannah walking into her workplace at Christmas, reminding her just how dull her life is.

A storm rolls in off the North Sea, forcing the two women to spend Christmas together in the wilds of Scotland. They have no choice but to face their unlikely reversals of fortune, and their growing attraction, in spite of the simmering tension.

Can Hannah be vulnerable and let Lottie in? Can Lottie trust her feelings for a woman known for revealing uncomfortable truths? And will this Christmas change both their lives?

Don't miss this sizzling sapphic romance set in the wilds of Scotland's romantic Highlands, complete with stormy weather, romantic tension, spicy passion and festive feels.

The Highland Hideaway is written by Sally Brooks, the award-winning author of The Barcelona Bakery and the Second Chance Chronicles. It is a standalone sapphic romance from the Wanderlust Series.

This books features popular lesbian and WLW romance tropes including ice maiden, sapphic awakening, culinary romance, slow burn, femme/femme. Set in the Highlands of Scotland you'll find all the spicy festive feels.

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What the readers say

“Another enchanting romance from Sally Brooks”

“Likeable characters, beautifully described backdrop of castle and loch and sexual tension.”

“Ohh, a slow Christmassy burn. It’s a feel good storyline, with enough angst to keep reading and a will they, won’t they sort of read.”

“If you love slow burn tension, forced proximity, complicated history and snowed in with someone you have unfinished business with you NEED this on your TBR.”