The Sweetest Poison (The Pitfourie Series)

When she was eight years old, Helen Clack was bullied so mercilessly that she was driven to a desperate act.

Now she is being targeted once more, but this time her tormentor's identity is shrouded in doubt.When her life starts to disintegrate, she flees home to the wilds of north-east Scotland, and to the one man she knows can help her – Hector Forbes, the dubiously charismatic Laird of Pitfourie, with whom she has been hopelessly in love ever since those hellish days in the school playground, when he was her protector, her rescuer, her eleven-year-old hero.But is Hector really someone she can trust?And can anyone protect her from the terrible secret she's keeping?