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| When Fate Dictates
| | Elizabeth Marshall
| ‘When Fate Dictates’ is the first book in the ‘Highland Secret Series’.
It tells the story of a young girl, Corran MacDonald, driven from her bed and forced to flee her home in the early hours of February 13th 1692.
The Massacre of Glencoe was a dreadful and tragic event, a shameful scar upon the landscape of a beautiful and otherwise honorable place. In its aftermath not many were left to tell the sordid tale. Thirty eight men were murdered in their beds or as they tried to flee the village, at least a further forty woman and children perished on the snowy mountains, mercilessly driven from their homes by the Red Coats with their blood stained bayonets and smoldering muskets.
This story is a fantasy, the tale of a young girl who escaped the massacre and fled her village into the Scottish Highlands. ‘Dying’, Corran is mysteriously saved from death by a Highland Stag. Confused, alone and frightened, she makes her way back to the village of Glencoe where she comes face to face with one of her enemies, Simon Campbell, a Red Coat, deserter and traitor. With her family massacred and her village destroyed, Corran trusts the fugitive when he offers to help her escape. Plans to flee the country are brought to an abrupt end by Simon’s old enemy and fellow Red Coat, Angus. Pursued by Angus and seeking answers to the many questions in their life, Simon comes into the possession of a Campbell crystal which leads the couple through time and into modern day York where a final confrontation ends their conflict.
‘When Fate Dictates’ is a full length novel of approximately 90 000 words and is book one in the ‘Highland Secret Series'. Book two of the series is called ‘Beyond Time’ and the third is ‘Entwined’ both of which are due for release soon.
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