Wild Inheritance — Margaret Pargeter

Maxwell was smart, she must be smarter!

Admittedly, Alexa arrived at the Scottish Highlands croft without much previous information. But she had heard about Fergus.

Fergus had helped her cousin Angus, who had left her his home. But the proud, vital man she met there bore no resemblance to the elderly transient she had imagined.

Unfortunately, she fell in love with him before she discovered who he really was--Maxwell, owner of nearby Glenaird, who wanted her land. He'd stop at nothing to get it!

MILLS AND BOON BACK COVER:
When a distant relative left Alexa a croft on the West Coast of Scotland it came at a time when she had been thinking anyway of spreading her wings, and the obvious thing seemed to be to go and live there, at any rate for a time.
Her forceful cousin Edith advised her against it - what did Alexa know about running a croft? she pointed out - but Alexa preferred to follow her own judgement.
But she arrived at Invercraig to meet more opposition - from the mysterious Fergus, who shared Edith's views, and from her affluent neighbour, Maxwell of Glenaird, who wanted her land and didn't seem to have any qualms about taking her with it....