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The Seventh Son

The Seventh Son
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman’s child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire...

The Show Woman

The Show Woman
  • Author(s): Emma Cowing
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

1910. With the disappearance of her mother and the sudden death of her father, Lena instantly loses any security she has within the circus she has known all her life. She is advised to sell the carousel her father...

The Siege of Caerlaverock

The Siege of Caerlaverock
  • Author(s): Barbara Henderson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1300

12-year-old Ada is a laundress of little consequence but the new castle commander Brian de Berclay has his evil eye on her. Perhaps she shouldn’t have secretly fed the young prisoner in the tower. But when the King of...

The Silent Daughter

The Silent Daughter
  • Author(s): Emma Christie
  • Location(s): Portobello
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Deceit runs in the family . . . Chris Morrison is facing his worst nightmare. His wife is in a coma. His daughter is missing. And the only thing more unsettling than these two events . . . is...

The Snow Angel

The Snow Angel
  • Author(s): Lauren St John
  • Location(s): Nairobi, Africa, Kenya, Scottish Highlands
  • Era(s): N/A

Lauren St John’s stunning Christmas classic is about forgotten children, the power of nature to heal us and a girl who will climb mountains in search for a place to call home. Growing up in vibrant, crowded Nairobi, Makena...

The Sound of Sirens

The Sound of Sirens
  • Author(s): Ewan Gault
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a dead-beat coastal town in North East Scotland, seventeen-year-old Malky Campbell is desperate to help his pregnant and heroin addicted girlfriend. DI Stark, a middle-aged detective, alarmed by the rise of teenage crime in Port Cawdor, uncovers the...

The Spider and the Stone: A Novel of Scotland’s Black Douglas

The Spider and the Stone: A Novel of Scotland’s Black Douglas
  • Author(s): Glen Craney
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 14th Century

As the 14th century dawns, the brutal King Edward Longshanks of England schemes to steal Scotland. But a frail, dark-skinned boy named James Douglas, inspired by a headstrong lass from Fife, defies three Plantagenet kings and champions the cause...

The Stolen Hours

The Stolen Hours
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Early 1920s

Wild Isle, Book 2 A reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets . . . It’s the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children,...

The Story Keeper

The Story Keeper
  • Author(s): Anna Mazzola
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1857

From the author of THE UNSEEING comes a sizzling, period novel of folk tales, disappearances and injustice set on the Isle of Skye, sure to appeal to readers of Hannah Kent’s BURIAL RITES or Beth Underdown’s THE WITCH FINDER’S...

The Storytellers

The Storytellers
  • Author(s): Caron McKinlay
  • Location(s): Mondello, Edinburgh, Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Trapped between life and the afterlife, three women meet and share their stories while discovering the truth about the men in their lives—and about themselves. Suspended in an eerie state of limbo, an entity called the Gatekeeper tells Nikki,...

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