Harsh Heritage

The story opens in the western Highlands of Scotland in 1817. The Highland Clearances have begun, and everywhere landowners are brutally evicting their tenants, condemning them to a grim future of starvation and despair. Amid this unfolding tragedy, one particularly terrible act of cruelty leads to a dreadful curse being placed on the family, lands and descendants of the man responsible—Edward Macarthy Neill. From that moment on, Neilts family will never be out of danger, as the curse pursues them relentlessly down through the generations. . . .

Set against the dramatic background of the western Highlands, Harsh Heritage is a powerful tale of superstition and revenge from Scotland's finest historical novelist.