The Mad Van

Scotland, 1887. Isobel Fairlie is six months from inheriting her father's fortune when her husband's family has her declared insane. Two doctors sign the papers. A Sheriff stamps the order. By nightfall she is shackled inside the mad van, the black windowless wagon that carries women up a Highland mountain to Craigmoor Asylum, where no woman has come home in twenty years.

Rhys Kerr has driven that van for five years. Ninety women. He remembers every one of them, and he has never once turned around.

Until a blizzard, a broken wheel, and a pair of furious grey-green eyes.

Now Isobel is a fugitive with a price on her head, and the man who was paid to deliver her is the only thing standing between her and the hunters' dogs. He is cold, silent and dangerous, and he is hiding something in the tin he keeps over his heart. She does not trust him. She cannot stop wanting him.

From snowbound bothies to a storm-battered fishing inn, from an Edinburgh graveyard at midnight to the locked wards of the asylum itself, Isobel and Rhys are drawn into a conspiracy far darker than one greedy family. Craigmoor keeps its secrets in stone, and some of them are still breathing. To uncover the truth, Isobel must do the unthinkable and walk back through the asylum gates of her own free will, while the clock runs down to noon on Midsummer Day.

The Mad Van is a dark, sensual and gripping gothic historical romance about stolen voices, unforgivable choices, and a love that has to survive the whole truth. Perfect for readers who crave a dangerous hero, a heroine with fire, and twists they will never see coming.