The Fire in the Flint

Summer, 1297. Margaret Kerr is living in Edinburgh with her uncle Murdoch. She has come to search for her long-absent husband, Roger, who is in the service of Robert the Bruce. Margaret herself is still loyal to the deposed king John Balliol. Then terrifying raids and a brutal murder on the Kerr property bring the wrath of the English down on the heads of Margaret and her uncle. The sudden reappearance of Roger gives Margaret the chance to escape from Edinburgh. Together they make for Perth, but soon she begins to suspect that Roger's newfound enthusiasm for their marriage is nothing more than a foil for a mission for Robert the Bruce. Margaret is troubled and confused, and then her father returns from Bruges, bringing trouble and discord in his wake. What was it the raiders sought from Margaret's property? And what of her mother, Christiana's visions, which all sides are keen to interpret? Can Margaret trust either her husband or her father...? © William Heinemann 2003

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