The Snow on the Hills

Vanessa was used to turning men's heads - but perhaps she was a little too complacent about her ability to attract them when she crossed swords with the masterful Callum Grayne.

Their very first meeting had hardly given him a good opinion of her, and as they, unavoidably, began seeing a lot more of each other, his attitude became even more uncompromising. He didn't trust her; he suspected her motives for taking the job of book cataloger in the Highlands, working for elderly Mr. Maclean, and he was determined not to let her use her beauty to deceive him as well. Up to a point Cal was right about Vanessa, but she had, she thought, the best of reasons for her deception. She had taken the job with Mr Maclean as he's actually her grandfather - and she wants to meet him; initially to revenge herself on his causing her parents' death with his unforgiving attitude, by making him care for her, then rejecting him in her turn ! And after all, what did it matter to her what that odious Callum Grayne thought of her?