Leaving her home in the sunbleached courts ofAvignon, gently nurtured, seventeen-year-old Ninian rides into the darkness and strife ofScotland to marry a stranger. Her path crosses that of Gavin Cameron of Kinveil, priest and Chancellor of Scotland. Laconic, ambitious and handsome, he is the one man the Stewart king dares to trust, the one man strong enough to save the kingdom from the civil war planned by the charming, implacable Archdeacon Columba Crozier and his bastard sun, Adam de Verne. Tied by blood on one side and by an overwhelming -- and forbidden -- love on the other, Ninian, growing from her careless girlhood into a beautiful woman and an artist of brilliance and power, is precipitated into violence and tragedy, in which she, too, has a vital part to play.
- ISBN10 0712610499
- ISBN13 9780712610490
- Publish Date 21 December 1995 (first published 26 June 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Century
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 480
- Language English