Set on the beautiful island of Islay, The Christmas Secret is a gripping tale filled with feeling from Karen Swan, author of Christmas Under the Stars.

Alex Hyde may be the leaders’ head. An executive trainer par quality, she’s the person the fantastic and the nice turn to when the pressure gets an excessive amount of; she can transform the way they think, how they operate, she can turn around the very fortunes of their companies.

Her waiting list is months’ very long, but also she can’t turn down the unorthodox but about The Xmas Secret: AN IDEAL Christmas Story From a Sunday Times Bestseller highly lucrative crisis call that comes her way a couple weeks before Christmas, regarding the troublesome – and troubled – head of an esteemed whisky company in Scotland: Lochlan Farquhar, CEO of Kentallen Distilleries, is a maverick, an enigma and a renegade, and Alex must get inside his head before he provides the business to its knees.

It ought to be business as usual. She can do this in her rest. Only, when she gets to the remote isle of Islay, with the winter snows falling, Alex finds herself out of her comfort zone. For once, she’s not in control -Lochlan, though darkly charismatic, is definitely unpredictable and destructive, her usual strategies gaining no traction with him – and with Christmas and her deadline fast approaching, she must win his trust and discover ways to close upon this deal.

But simply because she pulls ever nearer to him, limitations become blurred, loyalties loosen and Alex finds herself confronted with an impossible choice mainly because she realizes nothing and no-one is really as they first seemed.

‘Fun and great escapism’ Tracy Rees, writer of The Hourglass

‘I devoured it such as a holder of warm mince pies. A delicious winter season tale’ Sarah Morgan, bestselling writer of Moonlight Over Manhattan

‘If you’re anything like us, then a reserve by Karen Swan is becoming synonymous with Christmas, and her most recent is probably her best yet … smart plots, amazing heroes and juicy love’ Heat