Katie Williams has never apologized for living on her own terms. Bold, unashamed, and unafraid of desire, she refuses to shrink for anyone. But when her affair with the wrong woman stirs scandal, she’s cast out of Glasgow and sent to a remote Highland village, where gossip cuts colder than the winter air.

There she collides with Murdock, a shepherd whose silence says more than words. His distance infuriates her, yet his strength draws her in. Beneath the hard exterior, Katie senses a man carrying wounds of his own and a longing he doesn’t dare admit. Forced together by circumstance, sparks of tenderness break through the walls neither meant to lower.

But danger waits close to home. Murdock’s ruthless brother has his eye on Katie, willing to claim her and destroy Murdock to do it. In a land where reputation can mean survival, both must decide if love is worth defying family, betrayal, and the judgment of an unforgiving world.

Will Katie and Murdock stand together against the storm, or will fear tear them apart?