The Bookseller of Inverness

After the 1746 Battle of Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor with his face brutally slashed, surviving by pretending to be a corpse while Redcoats patrolled. Six years later, with clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives quietly as a bookseller in Inverness. One evening he notices a stranger lingering in his shop. The next morning the stranger is found dead with his throat cut and a sword bearing a white cockade laid before him. Iain becomes entangled in a web of deceit and old scores that persist in the ashes of war.