Every evening at the gloaming, Pia Shaw disappears.
She took a stone from a fairy mound at sixteen. The land remembered.
Four years later, the price comes due: torn nightly from her modern life and cast seven centuries into the past, onto a sacred hill no one in the glen dares approach. She cannot stay. She cannot refuse to return. And when the first man who raises a blade against her vanishes into thin air, the village learns what Pia already knows:
An ancient power is watching—and it does not explain.
Lucas Cameron knows exactly what she has offended. The man the magic took was his brother.
He claims the duty no other man will take: to stand watch over the strange young woman the mound delivers each evening. The Highland warrior has every reason to hate her. Instead, he brings bread he cannot spare to a hill that never answers. He teaches her Gaelic, word by word, across seven winters. He calls her something he refuses to translate.
And every evening, he stands when she arrives.
It will take her a thousand evenings to notice.
Pia, meanwhile, does what she has always done in the face of the impossible: she starts taking notes. She learns the songs. She wins over the fiercest grandmother in the glen. She researches her own curse with the determination of a scholar and the organizational skills of a woman armed with notecards.
Because the old tales all agree on one thing:
Love does not break fae bargains.
Endurance does.
As the seventh year turns, the trial nears its reckoning. The door home will open once—only once—and Pia will finally learn what the magic has been waiting for… and whether seven years of standing watch is enough to change both their fates.
A sweeping Scottish time-travel romance filled with love, laughter, found family, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.
A complete standalone. All the yearning, no cliffhanger.
Bring tissues. You'll need them.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
She took a stone from a fairy mound at sixteen. The land remembered.
Four years later, the price comes due: torn nightly from her modern life and cast seven centuries into the past, onto a sacred hill no one in the glen dares approach. She cannot stay. She cannot refuse to return. And when the first man who raises a blade against her vanishes into thin air, the village learns what Pia already knows:
An ancient power is watching—and it does not explain.
Lucas Cameron knows exactly what she has offended. The man the magic took was his brother.
He claims the duty no other man will take: to stand watch over the strange young woman the mound delivers each evening. The Highland warrior has every reason to hate her. Instead, he brings bread he cannot spare to a hill that never answers. He teaches her Gaelic, word by word, across seven winters. He calls her something he refuses to translate.
And every evening, he stands when she arrives.
It will take her a thousand evenings to notice.
Pia, meanwhile, does what she has always done in the face of the impossible: she starts taking notes. She learns the songs. She wins over the fiercest grandmother in the glen. She researches her own curse with the determination of a scholar and the organizational skills of a woman armed with notecards.
Because the old tales all agree on one thing:
Love does not break fae bargains.
Endurance does.
As the seventh year turns, the trial nears its reckoning. The door home will open once—only once—and Pia will finally learn what the magic has been waiting for… and whether seven years of standing watch is enough to change both their fates.
A sweeping Scottish time-travel romance filled with love, laughter, found family, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.
A complete standalone. All the yearning, no cliffhanger.
Bring tissues. You'll need them.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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