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On the Isle of Skye in Under Scottish Stars<\/a><\/em> by Carla Laureano, young widow Serena MacDonald Stewart and hotel manager Malcolm Blake fall in love. Read below what author Carla Laureano wrote about her own journey to Skye and the picturesque setting of the novel. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

In the spring of 2004, my husband and I took what would be\nhis first trip to Scotland and my first return in over a decade. At the tail\nend of the trip, we spent three days on the Isle of Skye. Our travel agent had\ninsisted that no Scottish tour would be complete without the small island just\noff the west coast from the Highlands, but we truly had no idea what was in\nstore for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the many lonely roads on the Isle of Skye (also, sheep!)<\/strong>
Photo courtesy of Carla Laureano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019d been traveling in cities up to that point, but crossing\nover the Skye bridge from Kyle of Lochalsh onto the island itself was like\ntraveling back in time. Deserted mountain views, a lowering gray sky shedding\nsheets of rain, and most telling . . . no cell service. For\nthree days, we wandered the wild landscapes and returned home to a charming\ncountry-house hotel feeling as if we\u2019d gotten a massive, unexpected reset on\nour lives. All the tension from the previous stressful year\u2014and the maneuvering\nrequired to get more than two weeks off from work at the same time\u2014melted away\nand we had time to just enjoy each other\u2019s company for the first time in ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When, years later, I had the idea to write a book about an overworked marketing executive (ahem, art imitating life) who finds love on a business trip, the Isle of Skye was a natural choice for the setting. Where else could you so thoroughly disconnect from the world? After all, even tropical island resorts had cell phone service, and they didn\u2019t require you to park on the verge of an overgrown shoulder on a bare quarter-mile stretch of highway to get a signal (true story). In 2012, when I wrote Five Days in Skye<\/em>, things were beginning to change on the island, but it was still mostly the wild place that I remembered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward eight years to the publication of the third and\nfinal book in the MacDonald Family Trilogy, Under Scottish Stars, <\/em>and\nthe book almost feels like a time capsule. Tour buses now crowd the roads of\nthe tiny island, hotels require reservations a year in advance, Airbnbs are in\nscarce supply, and glamping cabins are popping up to accommodate the adventure\ntourists who flock to the island every summer. I had a moment of doubt when\nreediting this book for its publication this summer\u2014should I update it to\nreflect the changes that happened in the mere five years since I wrote it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view of the hotel that inspired the MacDonald Guest House<\/strong>
Photo courtesy of Carla Laureano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the end, I decided to leave well enough alone. There\u2019s\nvalue and beauty in marking that moment in time\u2014the changes already reflected\nin Serena\u2019s difficulty in finding a last-minute cottage to rent for the\nsummer\u2014and preserving that sense of isolation and wildness both for myself and\nfor readers who will never have a chance at that long-ago island experience,\nexcept in fiction. And while it\u2019s still a place of beauty I look forward to\nvisiting again (and would have visited this summer with my family if not for a\ncertain global pandemic), that first trip to Skye with all its romance and\nlife-changing isolation can remain etched in my memory as it was, preserved on\nthe pages of Under Scottish Stars.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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