Snowbound with the Highlander

A bookshop. A banker. A winter that changes everything.

Hazel Muir is done with empty promises and dead-end careers. She wants something real - a place where stories belong. In the middle of a Scottish winter, she opens Once Upon a Shelf, a tiny bookshop in Glencoe meant to be more than a business. It's a refuge. A light in the dark.

But without a loan, her dream won't survive.

William Cairns believes in numbers, not hope. Sent to assess Hazel's application, the banker's verdict is swift and f...