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What does
it take to preserve the past? What will it cost to protect the future? Follow
the echoes through time and find out...
The
compelling and heartbreaking historical mystery debut from Lee-Anne McAulay.
Set in the
sweeping landscape of central Scotland against the backdrop of the 1715
Jacobite uprising. Jeannie Kellie and Mairead Erskine are caught in a desperate
battle to survive.
In the
present Hazel Rankin and Dr Lauren McDonald begin a project at Alloa Tower
connecting people to the lives of those in the past. When a body is discovered,
the women soon discover that shadows from their own pasts have resurfaced with
it.
United by a
desire to save historic sites from mothballs or developers
Hazel and Lauren search for the stories of ordinary people in extraordinary
times. It soon becomes clear that not everybody wants
them to succeed. The discovery of the body brings the project to a standstill
and their funding is threatened. Determined to make their project a success
they follow the threads of the mystery and what they discover holds deep echoes
of their own lives.
In 1715
Mairead Erskine arrives at the tower as her husband is given command of the
Erskine family seat of power. Feeling the pressure to prove her worth Mairead
clashes with healer and midwife Jeannie Kellie. When their Laird turns his coat
and leads an uprising to overthrow King George the women find themselves in
path of the coming war. Thrown together they work to keep the inhabitants of
the tower safe and well, risking everything for those in their care. When the
tower falls they soon realise that neither a family name nor skill as a healer
will keep them safe from the redcoat soldiers.
