The Christmas Secret: The Perfect Christmas Story From a Sunday Times Bestseller Audiobook (Free)

Set on the beautiful island of Islay, The Christmas Secret is a gripping story filled with emotion from Karen Swan, author of Christmas Under the Stars.

Alex Hyde is the market leaders’ innovator. An executive trainer par brilliance, she’s the person the fantastic and the nice turn to when the pressure gets an excessive amount of; she can change just how they think, the way they operate, she can change around the very fortunes of their companies.

Her waiting list is a few months’ longer, but even she can’t turn down the unorthodox but about The Xmas Secret: AN IDEAL Christmas Story From a Weekend Times Bestseller extremely lucrative crisis call that comes her way a couple weeks before Christmas, concerning the troublesome – and troubled – head of an esteemed whisky company in Scotland: Lochlan Farquhar, CEO of Kentallen Distilleries, is a maverick, an enigma and a renegade, and Alex must get inside his head before he brings the company to its knees.

It should be business while usual. She can do this in her sleep. Only, when she gets to the remote island of Islay, with the wintertime snows falling, Alex discovers herself out of her comfort zone. For once, she’s not in control -Lochlan, though darkly charismatic, can be unpredictable and damaging, her usual methods gaining no traction with him – and with Christmas and her deadline approaching fast, she must win his trust and discover a way to close on this deal.

But mainly because she pulls ever closer to him, limitations become blurred, loyalties loosen and Alex finds herself faced with an difficult choice as she realizes nothing at all and no-one is really as they first seemed.

‘Fun and great escapism’ Tracy Rees, author of The Hourglass

‘I devoured it just like a holder of warm mince pies. A delicious winter season tale’ Sarah Morgan, bestselling writer of Moonlight Over Manhattan

‘If you’re anything like us, then a publication by Karen Swan has become synonymous with Christmas, and her newest is probably her best however … smart plots, amazing individuals and juicy romance’ Heat