The new book is published by Champagne Book Group and is due out on November 16.

It’s a contemporary romance set between Melbourne, Australia, Edinburgh and the highlands of Scotland.

Catriona Cameron, petite and feisty Melbourne waitress, has a secret. She doesn’t know it’s secret so much as that it’s a recipe she has promised to hold in trust, to share with no one except her daughter. Everyone has their own family recipes, don’t they?

Lachie McKell is the modern-day Laird and his people are suffering. The last person he knows of, in the line of a 200 year old tradition is dead, the business is failing and people are losing their livelihoods with no hope in sight. But wait! Is that the same product on the other side of the world? What must he do to persuade an Australian recipe-holder to come home to Scotland with him, to give up her secrets and save his community?