Alasdair Cameron and Fergus MacDonald were childhood friends. Their fathers? caps carried a blue hackle, the badge-feather of a distinguished Scottish regiment. Now the feather in Fergie?s cap is the decaying Dunasheen Estate on the Isle of Skye. His desperate schemes to save his home depend on a collection of historic artifacts and a handful of paying guests who expect a traditional Scottish New Year celebration. For Jean and Alasdair, the bells of the new year are also wedding bells—their rings are ready, their guests are invited, and the Gothic folly of Fergie?s chapel is waiting. Then a guest is found murdered, lying in blood that?s thicker than seawater.
