Heart of Yule - A Winter Tale of the Highlands #926971

Year of Our Lord, 1229.
Winter has sealed the shores of Miren beneath a veil of mist and ice. In Dunvalen, under the sign of Yule—when the sun seems to die only to be reborn—a wedding is held to seal the peace between the feudal South and the Highlands.
Éliane de Valenne, daughter of a merchant of Norman descent, is betrothed to Rowan MacAven, heir to a Highland clan that values freedom above duty. Between them lies more than a contract: it is the clash of two worlds—silk and stone, song and steel, winter and its inner fire.
What begins as a forced union transforms, beneath the long night of the solstice, into a revelation: love may be born in stillness, not as an impetuous flame, but as a glow that endures when all else has faded.
The brooch Éliane wears upon her heart—heirloom, offering, and omen—will bear witness to that secret passage: from fear to desire, from duty to destiny.
Amid the bagpipes of dawn, the murmur of the fjord, and the snow falling upon the walls of Thornbrae Castle, The Heart of Yule rises as an elegy to beginnings.
Beneath the skies of Yule and the snows of the Highlands, will Éliane and Rowan discover that even in the deepest darkness, love can be the spark that heralds the dawn?
A story of winter, fire, and promise—where two souls find their light in the longest of nights.