This is a beautiful, moving tale from the bestselling author of the ” Flashman Papers”. To the young Lady Margaret Dacre, raised in the rich security of Queen Elizabeth`s court, the Scottish border was a land of blood & brutal violence, where raid & murder were commonplace, & her broad inheritance lay at the mercy of the outlaw riders & feuding tribes of England`s last frontier. Beyond the law`s protection, alone but for her house servants & an elderly priest, she could wait helpless in her lonely manor, or somehow find the means to fight the terror approaching from the northern night!