The Silver Link - The Silken Tie — Gwen Kirkwood

Elspeth is the last of the Elliots of Everanlea. She shares her grandmother's love of their Scottish heritage and she is determined to preserve it, but running a large hill farm presents problems, and a danger neither of them could have envisaged.
Elspeth is dismayed when her father advises her to sell out to her neighbour, Robin Armstrong, for feuds between the Elliots and the Armstrongs of Arnhill are legendary. Even if she wanted to sell, could she bear to sell to the man she would never forget, or forgive, for humiliating her in front of her friends when she was sixteen? Besides her grandmother has engaged a manager, the charming and handsome, Howard Elliot. He is very eligible, but he is unfamiliar with the ways of Border shepherds.
In spite of their stormy relationship, Robin Armstrong offers his help â€" but he admits he has ulterior motives. So can she trust him? Or should she continue to rely on Howard?