Can love truly heal old wounds? Can the past ever be put peacefully to rest? If you like a complex, grown-up romance with lots of raw emotion, dramatic and exotic settings, all mixed in with some international politics and laced with elements of a crime thriller, then this is the book for you.Falling in love is the easy bit. Happy ever after requires work, commitment and honesty.She wants him to be her friend and lover. He wants her as his wife. Can a compromise be reached? Or are things truly over between them?When former Edinburgh policeman Jack Baxter met crofter and author Rachel Campbell at her home on the Scottish island of Skye, they fell in love. It was a second chance at happiness for them both.But after Jack proposes marriage, it becomes clear they want different things.Then, as Rachel prepares to return to the Middle East to work on a peacemaking project that's close to her heart, and as Jack's past catches up with him, it seems their relationship is doomed.Can Rachel compromise on her need to maintain her hard-won independence?Can Jack survive the life-threatening situation in which he finds himself?Will they get the chance to put things right between them?Settlement is the sequel to literary romance novel, Displacement, but it can be read as a stand-alone.