A paranormal romance set in the Scotland of just after Bonnie Prince Charlie's failed uprising.
After the 1745 rebellion, one of the defeated Scots, having survived in hiding, finds his young bride-to-be has married one of his ancestral foes. Heart-sore, planning murder and revenge, with no place to go and no hope, he falls in with a woman, who asks him the road and miles to Dundee. The highlands of Scotland are still wild and lawless, full of men such as himself. She is frail and beautiful, and he becomes her protector and guide on a dangerous road. Only the young woman is not what she seems, and carries a the secret of a tragic romance, dishonor, betrayal and death from the sad history of his clan.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
After the 1745 rebellion, one of the defeated Scots, having survived in hiding, finds his young bride-to-be has married one of his ancestral foes. Heart-sore, planning murder and revenge, with no place to go and no hope, he falls in with a woman, who asks him the road and miles to Dundee. The highlands of Scotland are still wild and lawless, full of men such as himself. She is frail and beautiful, and he becomes her protector and guide on a dangerous road. Only the young woman is not what she seems, and carries a the secret of a tragic romance, dishonor, betrayal and death from the sad history of his clan.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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