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After her grandmother Agatha’s death, Ainsley feels grief and disbelief while following a stipulation written into the will and guided by a letter that frames the journey as both duty and emotional healing. As her rental car becomes trapped in mud and visibility collapses, Ainsley must push through fear and uncertainty while confronting the past the ring is meant to lay to rest.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTHE KILTED GROOM A Scottish Romance  \nLAUREN SMITH  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nAbout the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.  \nCopyright © 2025 Lauren Smith  \nAll rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitutes unlawful piracy and theft of the author ’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [lauren@laurensmithbooks.com. Thank you for your](lauren@laurensmithbooks.com. Thank you for your) support of the author’s rights.  \nThe publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher.  \nISBN: 978-0-9974237-0-9 (e-book edition)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER 1  \nT his is insane.  \nAinsley Hazelwood’s headlights could barely eke out anything on the black rain-soaked road. The deluge that had swept over her car in the last hour made it impossible to see past the sharp glints of rain on her windshield. She’d left Glasgow hours ago, and she swore the storm had followed her.  \nShe gripped the steering wheel tighter as she glanced at the GPS on her rental car before returning her eyes to the road …or where the road used tobe. She couldn’t distinguish between the side gulleys and the center pavement any longer, even with her high beams on. Driving through Scotland in the middle of the night without a clue where she was going was completely insane. The address for the bed-and-breakfast she was trying to find still didn’t show up on the digital map. All she could do was set the address for the village of Greystone and hope she’d get close enough to locate the inn.  \nRain sluiced down the windshield as the storm deepened. The dirt road, which was once solid, turned into mud … mud that was trapping her car. The vehicle slowed—and no matter how hard she pressed the gas pedal, the car only inched along. A few dreadful moments later, it stopped; the car rocking backward as it settled deep into the mud.  \nAinsley curled her fingers tight around the steering wheel as a wave of grief and frustration hit her out of nowhere. She pressed the hazard-lights button on her dashboard, wishing she could do something, anything else instead of cry, which was very much what she wanted to do if she didn’t find a way out of this mess.  \n“I don’t even want to be here,” she breathed in the dark, and lowered her head until it pressed into the steering wheel. Hot tears leaked out of her tightly closed eyes, and she choked on a sob.  \nThe only reason she was here was that her grandmother, Agatha, the woman who had raised her, had died and left behind a small fortune—with strings attached. Ainsley was supposed to return an old ring to a family in Scotland. The ring had been in her family since 1917, but Ainsley hadn’t learned about it until her grandmother had passed away. She glared at her purse, which held the little blue velvet box containing the antique ring. She wanted to throw it out the window, forget why she was here, and just go home. But returning that ring to Scotland had been her grandmother ’s last wish, and she couldn’t turn that down.  \n“Gran, I need you,” Ainsley whispered as she lifted her head and wiped her tears away with shaking hands. She shouldn’t be falling apart like this. She was twenty-eight, a grownup for God’s sake. But grief had a way of taking her back to when she was a child, reminding her how much it hurt to lose those she loved.  \nShe glanced","cbCaie6mbmAHyn1M","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaie6mbmAHyn1M","pdf",819363,81,"English","en",105,"# Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n## About the Author","[{\"question\":\"Why does Ainsley Hazelwood travel to Scotland?\",\"answer\":\"Ainsley’s grandmother has died and left a stipulation for her to return an antique family ring to Scotland. The ring has been in her family since 1917, and her grandmother’s letter describes the journey as something Ainsley truly needs.\"},{\"question\":\"What challenge does Ainsley face early in Chapter 1?\",\"answer\":\"Ainsley is driving in a severe rainstorm on a night road where the GPS guidance fails. 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