Prologue

The times in Scotland are turbulent. It has been five years since the failed Jacobite Rising of 1715 and the consequences are still being felt heavily.

Peigi MacDonald is a kitchen maid.
Alasdair MacIver is the son of the Laird.

All it takes for these once-friends to be thrown back into each other's paths is one dance, but everything that happens next is much more than fate...

Is mios' an t-eagal na 'n cogadh
Fear is worse than fighting