Traveling alone through the treacherous Scottish Highlands, Madeleine d'Evremont is saved by rough-looking soldier Grant Rathmore. Attraction flares between them as he escorts Madeleine on her perilous escape to France, until she discovers he's the heir of a respected laird! Madeleine knows she must let him go. Surely the daughter of a humble adventurer could never be a suitable match for him now.

In order to gain control of his ancestral Highland estates, Alistair MacRae must marry Iseabal, the daughter of Magnus Drummond, the unscrupulous and cruel neighboring laird who has seized the MacRae lands.

Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charlie Forbes, sees something in Tom and his seemingly insolent smile. So, Forbes decides to take Tom on holiday with his own family, with tragic consequences. From one of Scotland's greatest writers, The Changeling explores how goodness and innocence is compromised when faced with the pressures of growing up...

When they inherit an ancient mansion, Anita and her husband Charles decide to move in. From the moment of their arrival at Shorecliff, Anita notices that a change comes over Charles.

Ten-year-old Fiona, whose return to the island of Ron Mor to search for her missing brother, brings a legend to life.

The publication in 1868 of this sequel to Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood capped off one of George MacDonald's most productive years with a third major fiction work following Robert Falconer and Guild Court. Set in the Cornwall seaside town of Bude and inspired by a MacDonald family holiday a few years earlier, this novel continues the leisurely pastoral pace of minister Harry Walton's family. Like Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, it was first written...

An atmospheric thriller set in nineteenth-century Edinburgh, Anthony O'Neill's elegant, darkly masterful novel is full of psychological suspense and first-rate horror. Evelyn is a clever orphan at the Fountain bridge Institute for Destitute Girls. Enchanted by a cheerful lamplighter who fires the streetlamp outside her window each evening, she mesmerizes the other girls with flights of fancy. In a time before Freudian awareness of sexuality and the...

"On a windy, moonlit night Connor Kincaid holds up a carriage, only to have a delectable young Englishwoman tumble into his arms. Pamela Darby has journeyed to Scotland in search of a powerful duke's long-lost heir. When she first sees Connor, Pamela realizes that she may have found the perfect solution to all of her problems. The two strike a devil's bargain and journey to London to launch a risky masquerade. They are both enemies and allies - a...

Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, go on a trip to Orkney in Scotland to visit an old friend and see some intriguing Stone Age excavations. They realize there's considerable dissension between the archaeologists and the principal donor for the newest dig, a wealthy and abrasive American. When a more recent corpse is found at the dig, various suspects are named, but there's not enough evidence to bring a case against...

Edimburgo, 1817. En una época en la que el mayor objetivo de las mujeres es casarse, el sueño de Hazel Sinnett es convertirse en cirujana. Para Jack Currer la vida tampoco es fácil: sobrevive saqueando tumbas y vendiendo lo que encuentra en ellas en una ciudad llena de peligros. Sus caminos se cruzarán cuando, para formarse académicamente, Hazel hace un trato con un reconocido médico: si supera el examen de acceso, podrá estudiar en la universidad....