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Also by Karen Brooks:

The Whisky Widow, July 2025
e-Book
The Good Wife of Bath, February 2022
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
The Lady Brewer of London, November 2020
Paperback / e-Book
The Chocolate Maker's Wife, August 2019
Paperback / e-Book

THE WHISKY WIDOW
By: Karen Brooks

the new 2025 rollicking historical Scottish Highlands adventure from a bestselling, award-winning author

HQ Fiction
July 2025
On Sale: July 2, 2025
480 pages
Kindle: B0DS1FBQ34
e-Book
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Science Fiction Alternate History | Fantasy

From the bestselling award-winning author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this rollicking historical adventure that celebrates the art of whisky distilling, the defiant spirit of the Scottish Highlanders and a woman's fearless quest.

1780 Scottish Highlands
In every glass of whisky lies a small act of rebellion...

When Greer MacAlister's despised husband dies, she and her young daughter Fen find themselves in a remote whisky smuggling community in the heart of the Highlands. Here, illicit whisky making is a means of survival in a Scotland under occupation by the British, decades after the disastrous Battle of Culloden. The villagers are suspicious of the widow, but when Greer tricks excise officers away from their illegal stills with a courageous and daring act, they warm to her.

But the excise men are out for revenge, smuggling is a dangerous business, and whisky - a drink that has long ignited passions, songs, stories and danger - is at the rebellious heart of it all. Greer and Fen have no choice but to fight for the life they want.

This rollicking story of bravery, adventure, love and murder brings alive the Scottish Highlands of long ago. It is a poem to the art of whisky distilling and a world now lost to us, as well as a eulogy for those who were forced to leave it.