A lethal crime of passion darkens the mists of Scotland's legendary
Highlands
Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never questioned her
friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a shock when Gemma
learns that their holiday retreat to the Scottish Highlands is, in fact,
Hazel's homecoming--and that fellow hotel 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 her
back.
But when a sudden, brutal murder unleashes a slew of dark secrets and
long- seething hatreds, putting Hazel's life in peril, Gemma knows she
will need help unraveling this very bloody knot--and calls on the one
man she trusts more than any other, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan
Kincaid, to join her far from home . . . and in harm's way.