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The Healer's Daughter: A Sweet, Clean Scottish Historical Romance. Book 3 of Founders of the Loch.
Paperback
Series: The Founders of the Loch, Book 3
RomanceChristian FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 15 2026
Pages: 408
Weight: 0.94
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
He stood in her rain at the half-door for a long time, because he had read about the cottage's threshold the way other men read about sieges, and he wanted to be sure he was crossing it for the right reason.
Sorcha is eighteen at the start of the winter of 1683. She has lived alone at her dead mother's healing cottage since she was sixteen.
Sir Eachainn MacRath is twenty-four. He arrives at Sorcha's half-door in November 1683 with a letter of introduction. She reads the letter three times before she lets him in.
The most careful courtship - two months of long careful tea-table conversations; a fever in the spring; a MacRath name held quietly between her and the country that once burned her mother. A proposal at the half-door, in the rain.
A note for readers: Eachainn is recalled to Cnoc Ruadh in the late autumn of 1685 by a family illness and dies of plague there before he can return. Sorcha learns by letter. The book's HEA is not the wedding. The HEA is the woman who learns she is worth being loved, and the choice, in the closing chapter, to stay at Beinn Dearg and continue her mother's work alone - because she has been loved.
The catalogue's bittersweet origin story. The third and closing book of Founders of the Loch. Sweet-clean. Stand-alone.
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