BASALT ESTATE SERIES BOOK 1

He spent years trying to forget her…

Seven years ago, Rowan McGowan walked away from the woman he loved without explanation.

Returning to Basalt Estate, his family’s centuries-old home on the windswept coast of Northern Ireland, he’s tried to keep the past buried and move on with his life, working with his siblings to run their family gin distillery.

She’s spent years trying to move on…

Sophia Donovan has spent the last three years in Dublin building a life she loves far from the heartbreak Rowan left behind.

But you never really forget your first love…

When fate intervenes to bring Sophia up north to help plan her best friend’s upcoming wedding at Basalt Estate, she comes face to face with the boy who broke her heart when she was eighteen.

The years have changed them both. No longer the tenderhearted boy she knew, time has hardened Rowan, shaping him into a stoic, brooding man haunted by a past he won’t share.

Sophia can’t risk giving her heart away again. But between storm swept evenings and late night confessions, long buried feelings begin to stir.

Three weeks. That’s how long Sophia has to plan the wedding—and survive living under the same roof as the man who broke her trust, and who is slowly breaking down all her defences.

As old sparks reignite and unspoken truths come to light, Sophia and Rowan are forced to face what really tore them apart—and what still binds them together.