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Mrs. Frances Trollope decides to chronicle the life of her dear friend, feminist Fanny Wright, and in the course of her writing, Frances finds herself pulled into a variety of misadventures and revenge-filled plots.

Alexander MacDonald, one of the MacDonald clan that has lived in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia since 1779 when Calum MacDonald, his wife, twelve children, and dog landed in Canada, remains dedicated to the memory of Scotland and his grandmother's admonition to "always look after your blood.".

Patriarch Paul, his loveable, slightly repressed gay son Fenno, and other members of the McLeod family deal with difficult issues of love and loss over the course of several years.

Explains how Scotland earned the respect of the rest of the world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through its contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics.

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Scots-Irish, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

Nicholas Garrigan is surprised and flattered when Idi Amin requests that Nicholas be his personal physician, but Nicholas soon realizes that he has been drawn into Idi's web of hatred and brutality, forcing him to turn his back on his family and his native country, Scotland.

Long after the Great Crusade, Duncan, son of Murdo, leaves his home in search of the Black Rood and finds that the Knights Templar, the guards at the gates to the Holy Land, hold the keys to not only Duncan's destiny, but that of all of the West.

In 1764, Scottish portrait painter Stewart Jameson, trying to avoid debtors, relocates to Boston, where he takes Fanny Easton, the disgraced daughter of a leading citizen, as his apprentice and together, with the help of runaway slave Dr. Ignatius Alexander, the investigate the murder of an abolitionist.

One small girl's brave Highland heart responds to her father and the ancient spell his music weaves.