The Art of Burning Heather: A Novel

When floral designer Deli MacDonald's heart is broken by unrequited love and her best friend's abandonment, she flees to the Scottish Highlands to stay at her estranged aunt Mo's cliffside cottage by the sea. There, surrounded by eccentric locals and her aunt's unconditional love, she finds herself drawn to Lachlan Scott, a brooding pub owner whose path crossed hers twenty years earlier in these same hills. As Deli attempts to rebuild her life in the Highlands, she awakens family ghosts and reopens a decades-old rift. When her mother and grandmother arrive unexpectedly, three generations of women must confront the painful patterns of love, lies, and grief that once separated them. Through family secrets and personal reckoning, Deli must understand how she learned to be loved. Choosing between the familiar pain of her old life and the uncertain promise of a new one requires her to let her family's legacy and the world she built burn away completely.