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 Elizabeths 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 Englands last frontier. Beyond the laws 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!"