Ruby Spencer’s Whisky Year

One of… Buzzfeed’s Romance Books To Look Out For In 2023 Paste Magazine’s Most Anticipated Contemporary Romance Books of 2023 When a thirty-something American food writer moves to a Scottish village for one year to fulfill her dream of writing a cookbook she finds more than inspirationΓÇöshe meets a handsome Scotsman she canΓÇÖt resist. Ruby Spencer is spending one year living in a small cottage in a tiny town in the Scottish Highlands for three reasons: to write a bestselling cookbook,to drink a barrelful of whiskyand to figure out what comes next. ItΓÇÖs hard to know what to expect after an impulse decision based on a map of Scotland in her Manhattan apartmentΓÇöbut she knows itΓÇÖs high time she had an adventure. The moment she sets foot in Thistlecrossthe verdant scenerycozy cottagesand struggling local pub steal her heart. Between designing pop-up suppers and conversing with the colorful localsRuby starts to see a future that stretches beyond her year of adventure. It doesnΓÇÖt hurt that Brochanthe ruggedly handsome local handymankeeps coming around to repair things at her cottage. Though Ruby swore off menshe canΓÇÖt help fantasizing what a roll in the barley might be like with the bearded Scot. As Ruby grows closer to Brochan and the tightly held traditions of the charming villageshe discovers secret plans to turn her beloved pub into an American chain restaurant. Faced with an impossible choiceRuby must decide between loveloyaltyand the Highlands way of life.