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Moira MacBride
Sweet Scottish Highlands Historical Romance - One World. Generations Deep.
Hello and welcome.
I write Scottish historical romance — stories of stubborn lairds, brave women, and the wild country that shapes them both. From the heather-swept Highlands to the quiet borderlands, I love finding the small, true moments where love takes root in difficult places: a hand offered across a hearth, a promise kept when it costs something, a heart that learns to trust again.
If you've ever wished for a slower world, a deeper kind of courage, or a love story that earns its happy ending — pull up a chair. I'm so glad you're here.
My love of Scotland began long before I wrote my first word of it — in old maps spread across the kitchen table, in stories handed down, in one long trip that's become a dozen in my imagination ever since. Today my books all live in the same Highland world, generations and families deep—sweet, clean stories with a heart worth rooting for, a hero worth waiting for, and a Scotland that feels like home.
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Where to Begin
The Highland Generations | Series 1
One Highland world, generations deep. Five interlinked series, each book a standalone love story. Start anywhere — you'll meet old friends as you go.
The Unsuitable Brides She wasn't the bride he meant to marry. The Highlands had other ideas — and a heart that wouldn't be argued with. Book 1 of Series 1
The Border Lairds Where Scotland meets England, the lairds who hold the line discover that the deepest love stories cross every border.
Book 1 of Series 2
The Stuart Sisters The daughters of an old Highland house, each finding her way home — to a man worth keeping and a quiet, true love.
Book 1 of Series 3
The Highland Healers They tend wounds, deliver babies, and brew tisanes from the heather — and somewhere between the herb garden and the croft, they lose their hearts.
Book 1 of Series 4
Founders of the Loch Before the lairds, before the brides — the men and women who first stood beside the loch and built a home worth coming back to. (Read it first or read it last — both work.) Book 1 of Series 5
NEW SERIES LAUNCHING SEPTEMBER 2026
The Sanctuary at Dunloch | Series 2
The parallel arm to The Highland Generations series. Five sub-series, twenty connected love stories, set inside Margaret and Micah's keep across the long years from 1693 to 1718.
Every Sanctuary book carries the same four quiet rhythms: a stranger arriving at the door, a walk along the inner wall at evening, a wedding to close the year, and a household that ages on the page with every story. Sanctuary readers come for the same families, year after year, watching them grow up and grow old together.
The First Arrivals Four women come to Dunloch's door seeking shelter, and find more than they bargained for. The foundational quartet — the slowest, gentlest love stories, where a household, a sanctuary, and a habit of mercy take root.
Book 1 of Series 1
The Children of the Keep The rescued children of Dunloch grow up — and discover their own hearts inside the walls that saved them. Family found, then family chosen. The deepest loyalty payoff.
Book 1 of Series 2
The English Roads Women fleeing danger south of the border find their way north to Dunloch's gate — and the Highland men with a stubborn streak of mercy who'll see them safe. Four rescues, four love stories, the most adventurous series.
Book 1 of Series 3
The Long Threads Old loves and older loyalties pull familiar faces back to Dunloch. Each book gathers up a thread left dangling in The Highland Generations and weaves it into the household — for readers who want to see how the wider world finally comes home.
Book 1 of Series 4
The Next Generation The keep that took them in raised them well. Now Dunloch's daughters find their own way to love — three autumnal stories that close the long arc with weddings, mercies, and the quiet certainty that home is what you build. Book 1 of Series 5
A Note from Moira
Every book I write lives in the same wee corner of Scotland — the same glens, the same lochs, the same families whose lives keep tangling together across the generations. You can start anywhere. Read in any order. You'll meet old friends and new in every book, and the longer you stay, the deeper the world goes.
Moira Macbride
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