Book 3.5, a 121 page prequel novella in The Child of the Erinyes series.

A tale of star-crossed love, of superstition and zealotry, as a goddess brings her ancient triad together again on the windswept isle of Barra, in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.

The Chief of Clan MacNeil is forced to sell his ancestral island to John Gordon of Cluny, a mainlander. No one knows what to expect. Will life get better or worse? Will John Gordon take care of his tenants or evict them, like so many other landowners are doing?

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Impetuous, irreverent, derided as Barra's peculiar changeling, Lilith Kelso has little use for anyone but Daniel Carson, the orphan her mother has taken in. Everyone expects them to marry someday.

But then John Gordon buys the island. He sends his steward to collect rents and squeeze out profits for his employer.

The steward doesn't come alone. He brings his son, and nothing will ever be the same.