

With each new chapter she uncovers the secrets of the past in a sweeping tale of love, loyalty and ultimate betrayal. Discovering her novel contains more than she researched, Carrie wonders if this is ancestral memory – making her the only living person to know what truly happened all those years ago. Settling in the nearby village, she creates a heroine named after one of her ancestors and starts to write.

Present day Enchanted by the ruins of the castle, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn this all-but-forgotten story into her next novel. But danger is right around the corner, as rebels conspire to bring the exiled James Stewart to Scotland to reclaim his crown. Slains Castle, on the rugged Scottish coast, is much more comfortable than she is accustomed to.

On his passing, a distant relative offers what Sophia longs for most: a home. 1707 An ill-fated expedition for the New World left Sophia Paterson an orphan, cared for by her uncle. From the much-loved author of The Vanished Days, a novel of love, loyalty and ultimate betrayal.
