First published 1978
A soldier lies prisoner after the battle of Bannockburn when he glimpses his captor's daughter bathing. Love strikes him like lightning in his captivity. Elsewhere, a world awakens as new life quickens in a woman's womb. Two spirits find peace with their own deaths after wandering between worlds. Pirates scheme and betray each other in the eighteenth century, their treachery echoing across generations. Brown weaves these lives together across centuries of Scottish history. His characters move between the everyday and the miraculous, where ancient magic touches ordinary moments. The stories pulse with the rhythms of birth, death, and the eternal dance between love and loss that shapes every human heart.
Genres: romance, literary-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, lyrical
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Scotland
Period: Bannockburn, 18th Century
268 pages · Paperback · Quartet Books