Strongman Season

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, complete 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.