The Highland Dance

About The Highland Dance

For Amber, a step and a fall become the beginning of an impossible journey. A ballerina from twenty-first-century New York, she finds herself in Scotland after Culloden, separated from the comforts and assumptions of her own life. She has no clear way back, and the immediate problem is how to survive.

With Pin’s help and her dancing shoes, Amber makes her way through an eighteenth-century world that offers little of the security she once took for granted. Dance remains a connection to the person she was, even as her circumstances ask her to become someone more resourceful. The distance from home is measured in more than years.

The Highland Dance uses its Scottish setting to explore the difference between privilege and survival. Amber’s modern expectations encounter lives shaped by hardship, and her journey asks her to look beyond her own losses. Empathy, resilience, and gratitude become part of the change that time travel brings about.

At the heart of this historical time-slip romance is a heroine learning how to belong in an unfamiliar place. The appeal of the past sits beside its difficulties rather than erasing them. For a reader who loves Highland romance, the setting offers a different perspective: Scotland is encountered by someone who has arrived with a completely different understanding of the world.

Is this your next read?

Begin here if you enjoy a modern heroine displaced into history, a Scottish destination, and personal growth alongside the promise of romance. Amber’s background as a dancer makes her a distinctive guide to the story. What once belonged to a sheltered life travels with her into circumstances where familiar skills take on a new significance.

The Highland Dance is the first Timeloop Romance book and shares the series with The Roman Bloom. The two novels visit different eras and follow different heroines, linked by the experience of finding love and a changed sense of self outside their own time. The series page introduces both settings without giving away their endings.

Choose the Kindle or paperback edition using the purchase links above. If ancient Rome is your next destination, follow The Roman Bloom link below; if you prefer a haunting closer to the modern world, discover The Lady in White, part of the separate Margaret Thompson Series.