The Ashes of the White Rose

After Culloden, a hunted heir returns to the ruins of Tioram to uncover the long-buried truth of the mantle.

Planned

Six centuries on, the rising is over and the glens are burning. A hunted heir of Domhnall’s line comes back to Tioram — to ruins now, not a stronghold — carrying a name that will get him killed and a claim he does not yet believe.

What was sealed beneath the earth is still there. So is the Old Woman. She is older, and she says less.