Alexandra Kiley takes readers on a journey through Scotland in her adventurous, emotionally charged, second-chance romance, Scot and Bothered.
Told in two timelines seven years apart, Kiley (Kilt Trip) explores the lives of two lost souls--former lovers who, in the years since they split, struggle to find their places in the world while nursing broken hearts.
When Colorado native Brooke Sinclair was 22 years old, she was an aspiring writer studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh. But just as she was about to graduate, her hopes and dreams came crashing down. Seven years later, Brooke is working as a ghostwriter, and her former writing professor, mentor, and now devoted friend, Mhairi McCallister, hires Brooke to help write her memoir. In order to authentically portray Mhairi's storied past, Brooke decides to hike the stunning yet treacherous Skye Trail of Scotland, a passionate journey that came to define Mhairi's life. But when the photographer whom Brooke plans to accompany on the 80-mile trek breaks his leg and has to cancel, his substitute turns out to be Mhairi's nephew, Scottish-born photographer Jack Sutherland--the man who broke Brooke's heart in college. Thrown together under duress, the two navigate the beauty and travails of nature amid a host of complications, forcing them to rely on each other while dealing with the rugged terrain of their former, and current, relationship.
Readers will be charmed by a suspenseful plot, lively banter, and a swoon-worthy romance in Kiley's well-drawn, atmospheric literary love letter to picturesque Scotland. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines