The Heirs of Craigwarren Series by Lizbeth Selvig

He needed her passion; she needed his calm. Sometimes love means finding your missing piece.Noah Portman has a super power. He’s a master carpenter who shines brightest when he’s carving a piece of art or turning a derelict building into a show place. Better with wood than relationships, he’s learned that heartaches occur when he lets people get too close... moreHe needed her passion; she needed his calm. Sometimes love means finding your missing piece.Noah Portman has a super power. He’s a master carpenter who shines brightest when he’s carving a piece of art or turning a derelict building into a show place. Better with wood than relationships, he’s learned that heartaches occur when he lets people get too close. Despite that, when his brother needs help meeting a crucial deadline for renovating the Craigwarren cottage he’s recently inherited, Noah heads for Scotland.Feisty Mairi MacDonald loves being a primary school teacher, but her most important job is being mum to precocious seven-year-old Ella. When Mairi’s life and livelihood are threatened by her drug-dealing brother, she takes her daughter to the safe haven that is Craigwarren.Even as he settles into a house full of relatives, Noah realizes he’s made a mistake. Renovations he can handle. Living with the outgoing Mairi and her force-of-nature daughter is another thing altogether.But as weather, a love-sick goat, and endless set-backs plague the renovation, and as the brother Mairi is hiding from grows more desperate to find her, Noah and Mairi discover the things that irritate them about each other are actually the things they need to change their lives—and loves.Can Highland magic strike when opposites do more than attract? less

Her move to Scotland wasn’t about love—until she found it with a true-to-life Highlander.The only one in the whole of the country who didn’t want to stay.Dyed-in-the-wool optimist Bridget Portman has known her entire life she’d eventually move from the U.S. to Scotland—the land of her late mother’s birth... moreHer move to Scotland wasn’t about love—until she found it with a true-to-life Highlander.The only one in the whole of the country who didn’t want to stay.Dyed-in-the-wool optimist Bridget Portman has known her entire life she’d eventually move from the U.S. to Scotland—the land of her late mother’s birth. Though she comes to celebrate her brother’s Christmas wedding at beautiful Craigwarren, the home bequeathed to Bridget and her brothers, there’s more to her Scottish plans than holiday nuptials and inheritances. With a freshly acquired master’s degree in archaeology, she’s been offered the perfect job on a historical dig, where her lifelong dream of studying her heritage can come true at last.Master distiller Lachlan Brody might be fifth-generation heir to iconic Glen Alasdair distillery, but he’s tired of looking for acceptance from his famous father, who refuses to acknowledge his son’s expertise or allow him to help bring Glen Alasdair into the future and out of financial trouble. Lachlan loves his job in the U.S. and is ready to leave Scotland and his family legacy behind for a rare opportunity to purchase a small distillery of his own. But a serious accident leaves his father incapacitated and the family business in need of help.Anxious to do what he must to support his family and return quickly to America, he doesn’t count on the increasing friction with his father or problem after problem plaguing Glen Alasdair. He’s also unprepared to meet the most infectiously happy person he’s ever known. Within days, effervescent Bridget starts to remind him of all the things he still loves about Scotland. No matter how bad things get, Bridget makes the world brighter. Soon, unexpected love brings all Lachlan’s beliefs and plans into question.When Bridget’s dream job falls through, however, and she learns the only opportunity in her field will send her halfway around the world from her beloved Scotland and Craigwarren, it devastates even her sunny personality. It doesn’t help that she’s fallen hard for a Highlander she wasn’t even looking for.But if Bridget can’t follow her dreams, and Lachlan can’t find a way to work with his father, neither can stay in Scotland after Christmas and be happy. Even love has its work cut out with these two.When it comes to love, however, the Highlands have power.And Christmas has a magic all its own. less