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Some lights never go out.

When investigative journalist Mairi Sinclair arrives on the remote Hebridean island of Hushinish, she expects to investigate the disappearance of a lighthouse keeper lost during a violent Atlantic storm more than fifty years ago.

Instead, she discovers an island that has spent half a century protecting a lie.

Hidden...

Mairi MacKinnon has learned that on an island like Eilean Mòrain, the truth rarely disappears — it simply waits. So when old rumours surrounding a young woman who vanished before her wedding begin to resurface, Mairi is drawn into a mystery that has haunted the island for decades.

Catriona MacAskill was said to have run away in 1958, leaving...

Mairi Stewart returns to her late parents’ croft on a remote Hebridean island expecting nothing more than dust, paperwork, and memories she would rather leave buried.

Instead, she finds a hidden box, a photograph of her father beside a body, and the first sign that her family has been keeping a terrible secret since 1973.

As old loyalties begin to...

The Ferryman’s Daughter
Hebridean Mysteries Book 5
By Lily Paige-Turner

Mairi Maclean never meant to stay.

She returns to the island only to settle her late father’s affairs, intending to leave as quickly as she came. But when old papers surface among his things—and a local fisherman dies before he can explain what he knows—Mairi is drawn into a...

The Best Saturday Ever

Lily woke before her alarm.

For a moment, she lay perfectly still beneath her yellow duvet, listening to the birds chattering in the garden. A strip of sunshine stretched across her bedroom floor, and somewhere downstairs a cupboard door opened and closed.

Then Lily remembered what day it was.

“Sunnybrook Farm!”

She threw back...

The Call from Farmer Joe

The summer holidays had only just begun when Lily heard the familiar sound of Charlie’s paws racing across the kitchen floor.

“Easy there!” Dad laughed as Charlie skidded around the table, his black harness jingling gently. Ever since their visit to Sunnybrook Farm a few weeks earlier, Charlie seemed to wake every morning...

The Golden Harvest Begins

A warm September sun shone over Sunnybrook Farm.

Summer was slowly giving way to autumn, and the fields surrounding the farmhouse glowed with shades of gold, amber and russet. The hedgerows were heavy with blackberries, apples hung from the orchard trees, and neat rows of pumpkins sat waiting to be picked.

Charlie...

The Mystery of the Missing Blue Ribbon

The summer holidays were proving to be full of surprises.

Only a few days had passed since Lily and Charlie had returned from Bluebell Wood, where they had helped Emma the woodland ranger discover why the animals had been behaving so strangely.

Charlie was asleep beneath the kitchen table, his paws twitching...

The First Snow

Lily woke to an unusual silence.

She pulled back her bedroom curtains and smiled.

Everything outside had turned white overnight.

The fields.

The hedgerows.

The stone walls.

Even the roof of Sunnybrook Farm was covered with a sparkling blanket of fresh snow.

Tiny snowflakes still drifted gently from the grey winter sky.

Charlie, who had...

Christmas Comes to Sunnybrook Farm

The first signs of Christmas had arrived at Sunnybrook Farm. A light frost covered the fields, sparkling like tiny diamonds beneath the early morning sun. Smoke curled gently from the farmhouse chimney, while the scent of cinnamon, freshly baked bread and hot chocolate drifted through the crisp winter air....

When a storm tears open the machair on a remote Hebridean island, it exposes more than old bones.

Beneath the sand lies the body of a young woman who vanished during the war, along with whispers of a second disappearance, a ruined croft, and a village that has spent eighty years living with the wrong story.

Mairi Maclean knows better than to...

She thought the great love of her life had gone to war. She never imagined another kind of love might already be waiting at home.

On the remote Hebridean island of Kerran, Maggie believes she knows exactly what her future holds.

She will marry Tommy Elsworthy, raise a family and spend her life beside the man she has loved since they were young.

...

Some places hold memories.
Some places refuse to let them go.

When Elspeth returns to the Isle of Skye following the death of her grandmother, she expects only silence, solitude, and time to put her fractured life back together. Instead, she discovers hidden letters, old island secrets, and whispers of a man who vanished decades earlier during one...

When Isla MacLeod returned to the island for what was meant to be a short summer stay, she never intended to remain.

But among the quiet harbour roads, shifting Atlantic weather, and familiar faces she left behind years earlier, something long dormant begins slowly awakening again.

As the island moves through another Hebridean summer, Isla finds...

When Isla MacLeod returns to Skye after months away, she expects grief, silence, and the painful memories she left behind.

What she does not expect is Calum Fraser waiting for her at the ferry.

Autumn has settled heavily across the island now. Summer tourists are gone. Storms roll in across dark water, harbour lights glow through rain, and old...

When Isla McKenzie returns to the Isle of Skye after more than twenty years away, she intends to settle her late mother’s affairs, sell the old cottage above the harbour, and leave before winter closes in around her.

But Skye has other ideas.

As storms sweep across the island and old memories rise with the tide, Isla finds herself drawn back into...