Alex Matthews can walk into a stranger's house and know exactly what it needs, but she’s uncertain whether she can still do that for her own carefully curated life. When burnout lands her on forced leave, her best friend drags her along on the family trip to the Scottish Highlands: whisky, sheep, zero obligations, and a month of spring air to figure out why the life she built no longer fits.

The only complication? Ethan Macrae. Best friend's older brother. Brooding chef. The one Macrae she's never met, the final piece of the family she calls her own.

Their deal is simple: one trip, no strings, over when her flight leaves. Clean. Because Alex refuses to gamble the only real family she's ever had on the fizzy feeling in her chest, and Ethan won't ask for what he wants when feeding people has always been easier than joining them.

Tough Loch is a fast-paced debut romance about choosing the unexpected, and discovering that the rooms you can't read are the ones worth walking into.

Book One of the Family Meal series