Alone in China after her missionary father dies in a local uprising Kirsty Howard is drawn to her ancestral home Cluain, manor house in the Scottish Highlands, where she is reluctantly accepted by her embittered grandfather, owner of a whiskey distillery. Tells the story of Kirsty Howard, who leaves China when her parents die and seeks out her grandfather in Scotland. It is a strange world she finds at Cluain - an arrogant and lonely old man running...