The story of the Camerons of Kinveil, introduced in A DARK AND DISTANT SHORE, returns to the sensual, violent, jewelled world of the fifteenth century, to the royal court of Scotland, the papal court of Rome, and the lethal intrigues of a family as spectacular as the Borgias. At the centre is the formidable Gavin, chancellor of Scotland and the one man in whom the most dynamic of the Stewart kings dares put his trust. He is also, perhaps, the only man strong enough to save the kingdom from civil war...