In the heart of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town, Isobel MacLeod has built her life with precision, purpose, and fiercely guarded independence. A brilliant neurodivergent hypnotherapist and devoted single mother, she dreams of creating Aurilah, a revolutionary empire designed to change the world for people who think and feel differently. For Isobel, ambition is not about wealth alone, it is about protection, legacy, and building a future where her non-verbal daughter, Claire, will always belong.

Duncan Campbell appears when she least expects him.

A successful architect and devoted single father, Duncan is everything Isobel has spent years teaching herself not to trust, charismatic, emotionally perceptive, and dangerously patient. Their worlds collide through their children’s unexpected friendship, beginning with a paper aeroplane accident inside a bustling nursery and unfolding into something far deeper than either of them anticipated.

As Duncan becomes increasingly captivated by Isobel’s extraordinary mind and unwavering vision, he sees not just a woman, but an empress in the making. Drawn together through shared ambition, parenthood, vulnerability, and an aching desire to be truly understood, the two begin navigating the terrifying possibility of love after disappointment.

Set against the atmospheric beauty of Scotland, from Edinburgh’s cobbled streets to ancient castles overlooking the Firth of Forth, His Empress is an emotionally rich romantic novel about neurodivergence, healing, trust, ambition, and finding the rare person who sees every fractured, brilliant part of you and stays anyway.

Tender, intelligent, and deeply heartfelt, His Empress explores what happens when two fiercely independent people discover that love does not weaken ambition, it strengthens it.