BEFORE THE MOOR RUNS RED

Ravenscar Romances

By: Vivienne Scarrow

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Before the Moor Runs Red

Scotland, 1815. Seventy years after Culloden, the Highlands are being cleared again, and this time, the enemy doesn't carry a sword.

Catrìona Robertson has her grandmother's eyes, her grandmother's ledger, and her grandmother's refusal to look away. When the people of Strathnaver are given their date to leave the only home they've ever known, she travels north, not to stop what's coming, but to witness it. To write it down. To make certain it isn't forgotten.

She doesn't expect to find a Cameron at the end of a Sutherland burn, carrying the dirk that belonged to the man her grandmother never found on Culloden's field.

Eòghan Cameron came home from Waterloo with a letter of introduction to the men destroying the strath, and no idea what kind of man he wants to be now that the war is over. What he finds in Catrìona is a woman who sees exactly who he is, and exactly what he hasn't decided to become.

As the clearance date draws closer, the record Catrìona is keeping becomes the only weapon either of them has. And the dirk Eòghan carries becomes something else entirely: the proof that two families, two stories, two halves of the same terrible history, might finally be ready to become one.

The burns are still running. The pipes are still playing. And some things, love, defiance, the truth, survive even when everything else is taken.