Her grandfather left her a Highland cottage, three hundred thousand pounds, and a debt she never asked to inherit.
Devyn MacKinnon is thirty-three, burning out behind her camera, and very done with people making decisions for her. When a Scottish solicitor’s letter lands on her Chicago doorstep, omplete with a dead grandfather’s confession, a stone cottage, and a one-year ultimatum, she doesn’t go for forgiveness. She goes for the money, the house, and the answers her father took to his grave.
Lachlan MacGregor thought he knew what his village was. He thought he knew what his father was. He didn’t account for the Black American photographer who moves in, pushes back against everything, and makes the place feel like something worth fighting for.
He’s big, quiet, and precise, a man who throws stone and steel for sport and fights fires before dawn. She’s tall, direct, and relentless, a woman who sees everything through a lens and protects herself by keeping people in the frame, not in her life.
His father wants her gone. The village is watching. And the wound that tore her family apart thirty years ago is about to tear this one open — unless Lachlan decides his father’s pride isn’t the thing he’s loyal to anymore.
Strongman Season is an explicit BWWM contemporary romance about inheritance, belonging, and the strength it takes to choose who you love in a place that wasn’t built for you.
Contains: on-page explicit heat, racial dynamics handled with consequence, a Highland Games backdrop, and a man who asks to be photographed, just once, just for her.
Part of The Private Playbook Series. Can be read as a standalone.
Genre: Mystery
Devyn MacKinnon is thirty-three, burning out behind her camera, and very done with people making decisions for her. When a Scottish solicitor’s letter lands on her Chicago doorstep, omplete with a dead grandfather’s confession, a stone cottage, and a one-year ultimatum, she doesn’t go for forgiveness. She goes for the money, the house, and the answers her father took to his grave.
Lachlan MacGregor thought he knew what his village was. He thought he knew what his father was. He didn’t account for the Black American photographer who moves in, pushes back against everything, and makes the place feel like something worth fighting for.
He’s big, quiet, and precise, a man who throws stone and steel for sport and fights fires before dawn. She’s tall, direct, and relentless, a woman who sees everything through a lens and protects herself by keeping people in the frame, not in her life.
His father wants her gone. The village is watching. And the wound that tore her family apart thirty years ago is about to tear this one open — unless Lachlan decides his father’s pride isn’t the thing he’s loyal to anymore.
Strongman Season is an explicit BWWM contemporary romance about inheritance, belonging, and the strength it takes to choose who you love in a place that wasn’t built for you.
Contains: on-page explicit heat, racial dynamics handled with consequence, a Highland Games backdrop, and a man who asks to be photographed, just once, just for her.
Part of The Private Playbook Series. Can be read as a standalone.
Genre: Mystery