A bloody candlestick lights the way to murder.

Ginny Mackenzie is thrust back into the role of clan investigator when the matriarch of a prominent Loch Lonach family dies, bequeathing her considerable resources to a man determined to destroy the Scots’ way of life.

The Patterson family left Chancie Mor thirty years ago, after the death of a young kinsman. Maury Patterson, scion of the family and a state Senator from his adopted home in Illinois, has returned, with his eye on continuing his highly successful political career in Texas. He is not content to rejoin the somewhat backward community of his birth, nor accept the strictures of living in a historic home, the first built on the prairie east of Dallas. He has plans for the Scots. He likes being rich, and famous, and admired, but most of all, he likes power.

Ambition and superstition reign in this modern take on Shakespeare’s “Scottish Play.”