From rags to riches - but at what price?
Young Kate McMahon is blessed with haunting good looks, a quick tongue and a spirited nature: qualities that might have ensured success in life. But it is nineteenth century Dundee in Scotland, and for slum-dweller Kate, perched as she is on an abyss of poverty and deprivation, good fortune is not on the horizon.
When Kate witnesses a gruesome murder within the walls of her own home, she vows to take her revenge on the family she holds responsible. They are the Falconers, rich and proud, who own the mills that dominate the impoverished lives of the local community. But vengeance has a terrible price, as Kate discovers to her cost. For she sets in train a series of events that have devastating consequences for those she loves and those she hates.
This vivid, richly painted saga of power and passion, of family and class conflict, tells of the grandeur and the glory of the mill-owning class, and of the countless others who lived and died in the creation of their wealth. Inspired by the Jute Barons of the time, the story tracks the fortunes of both rich and poor in an era which saw unbelievable wealth exist alongside indescribable poverty.
Genre: Historical
Young Kate McMahon is blessed with haunting good looks, a quick tongue and a spirited nature: qualities that might have ensured success in life. But it is nineteenth century Dundee in Scotland, and for slum-dweller Kate, perched as she is on an abyss of poverty and deprivation, good fortune is not on the horizon.
When Kate witnesses a gruesome murder within the walls of her own home, she vows to take her revenge on the family she holds responsible. They are the Falconers, rich and proud, who own the mills that dominate the impoverished lives of the local community. But vengeance has a terrible price, as Kate discovers to her cost. For she sets in train a series of events that have devastating consequences for those she loves and those she hates.
This vivid, richly painted saga of power and passion, of family and class conflict, tells of the grandeur and the glory of the mill-owning class, and of the countless others who lived and died in the creation of their wealth. Inspired by the Jute Barons of the time, the story tracks the fortunes of both rich and poor in an era which saw unbelievable wealth exist alongside indescribable poverty.
Genre: Historical
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