1869, Sutherland, Scotland.

There's a Gold Rush going on in the Glens of Suisgill and Kildonan. When representatives of the Pan European Mining Company arrive to investigate, one of the prospectors is found bludgeoned to death, odd inscriptions discovered on stones nearby.

Meanwhile Solveig McCleery is trying to open up the coal mines at Brora, and it's not long before another body turns up.

And from faraway Archangel in Russia, a Master Mast-Maker suddenly decides to leave his work, his family, and take a ship over to Scotland, to Sutherland, and to Kildonan...

Discovering how all three strands are connected will lead you through this richly researched and engagingly atmospheric novel from beginning to end.