Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never thought to
question her friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a
shock when Gemma learns that their holiday retreat to a hotel in the
Scottish Highlands is, in fact, Hazel's homecoming -- and that fellow
guest Donald Brodie was once Hazel's lover, despite a vicious,
long-standing feud between their rival, fine whiskey distilling
families. And the fires of a fierce and passionate affair may not have
burned out completely -- on Brodie's part at least, since he's prepared
to destroy Hazel's marriage to win back his "Juliet." But when a sudden,
brutal murder unleashes a slew of sinister secrets and long-seething
hatreds, putting Hazel's life in peril, Gemma knows she will need help
unraveling this very bloody knot -- and calls for the one man she trusts
more than any other, Duncan Kincaid, to join her far from home ... and
in harm's way.