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Seventeen-year-old Nedra Brysstain leaves her home in the rural, northern territories of Lunar Island to attend the prestigious Yugen Academy with only one goal in mind: master the trade of medicinal alchemy. Nedra doesn't quite fit in with the other kids at Yugen. Until she meets Greggori "Grey" Astor. Grey is immediately taken by the brilliant and stubborn Nedra, who he notices is especially invested in her studies. And that's for a good reason: A deadly plague has been sweeping through the north, and it's making its way toward the cities, and Nedra is determined to find a cure.

As spiritualism reaches its fevered pitch at the dawn of the twentieth century, a Scottish girl crosses the veil to unlock a powerful connection within an infamous asylum in this thrillingly atmospheric, exquisitely evocative exploration of feminine rage and agency for fans of Sarah Penner, Alice Hoffman, and Hester Fox.

Scottish Makeup Artist Willow meets dashing New Yorker, Rick, and marries him after a whirlwind romance. But her new life in NYC is far from the perfect fresh start she imagined. Ignoring the warnings of her colleagues on the beauty hall floor, Willow headed off into the sunset with Rick...but his “Manhattan” loft is a bedsit in Queens and his ex, Isabella, appears to be in residence.

Lunar Island is trying to heal. The necromantic plague that ravaged the land has been eradicated, and Emperor Auguste, the young and charming leader of the Allyrian Empire, has a plan: rid the island of necromancy once and for all. Though Greggori "Grey" Astor wants what's best for his people, he knows that allying himself with Auguste threatens the one person he loves most: necromancer Nedra Brysstain. Feeling like he already failed to save Nedra once, Grey becomes determined to help the Emperor rebuild Lunar Island while still keeping Nedra safe from harm.

Hollywood director Steve McNaught is drinking heavily and on the brink of a midlife crisis. With guilt over two failed marriages and his role as near-absent father, he buys a one-way ticket to Scotland, hoping to find solace in his grandfather's ancestral home.

Having lost her parents at a young age, Flora MacGregor grows up as the substitute mother for a group of notorious criminals. She hates stealing, but to save her adopted brother, she takes to the streets to pick pockets. Her mission is accomplished when she lifts a jewel-filled box from a handsome Englishman. After she hides the treasure, he tracks her down, detains her, and demands the return of his goods in exchange for not reporting her to the authorities.

Five young graduates, eager to start their careers, pool their resources to buy a house, hoping to get ahead of the surging property market. But what begins as a hopeful venture quickly turns into the house share from hell. After a wild New Year's Eve party, they discover a body—and it's clear they're the prime suspects. Each of them harbors a past that makes trusting the police unthinkable. To protect themselves, they devise a plan—one that entangles them in a web of secrets and lies.

In 2019, Jenna Watt took part in the stalking of a hind on the vast Highland estate of Corrour: part of an immersive attempt to understand the ideas that lie behind 'rewilding', and what it means emotionally and physically to participate in Scotland's deer cull. Piece by piece and chapter by chapter she unravels the story of that one day spent hunting the hind, interlaced with her discovery that her ancestors were deer stalkers, game keepers, and ghillies on a Highland estate, who once took part in increasingly controversial land practices like muirburn and species persecution.

American student Alice Snyder was excited to be spending the summer in Scotland, working as an au pair for the Davidson family at their remote lodge. But one month after she arrived, Alice disappeared without a trace. Now, the new au pair Melanie has arrived—and soon notices that the Davidsons are a bit odd. There are the strange comings and goings at night, the creepy paying guests, and the sinister Uncle Gray who makes her flesh crawl. Then there's the worrying scratch marks on the floor of the au pair's bedroom. Did Alice try to barricade herself in? What could she have been so afraid of?

Lady Anne, the illegitimate daughter of the Scottish king Robert the Bruce, patiently awaits her wedding day at Rancoff Castle when Tor Henneson, Rancoff's bastard son raised by his Vik mother in the north, storms the castle moat and breaks down the gate, demanding his due. What he wants from the father who cast him aside is coin rather than comfort—something Rancoff has always denied him. Rancoff puts him off and rejects his demands and while days turn to weeks and then months, the towering young man opens his eyes to his long-denied Highlander heritage.

Found bound and beaten in a warehouse, a convicted criminal leaves a cryptic message before he croaks on the way to hospital. What did he know that was worth killing for? DI McCord sets out on the icy streets of Edinburgh to look for a clue.

Wherever there was trouble in the world, one would find Martha McGillivray. The celebrated journalist had a nose for rooting out corruption and a passion for sticking it to the man. Unsurprisingly, then, eventually trouble finds her and she dies of Ricin poisoning whilst traveling on a train to Edinburgh. Back from a spell on a punitive training course for middle-aged male dinosaurs, Detective Inspector Russell McCord is under pressure to crack the case quickly. However, his superiors have forbidden all contact with the press. In particular magazine writer and amateur sleuth Amy Thornton.

After a shooting party on a Scottish estate, one of the participants is found dead, having been unceremoniously hit on the head with a rock. Getting nowhere when interviewing the arrogant son of the wealthy landowner, DI Russell McCord is quietly relieved that with her family connections, bothersome journalist Amy Thornton might help the investigation. But with a new partner to train—one who, to his dismay, seems to have won the affections of Amy—McCord wastes no time putting the most likely suspect in jail.