The Highland Storm
Late 12th Century Scotland, a self-proclaimed King Bartholomew Kilgore, seizes power through bloodshed. But the true royal line-hidden in plain sight--is born in secret. The MacKenzie holding falls, Laird Liam MacKenzie is slain. The Four lairds of the highlands arrive too late to save him, but not too late for justice. They descend upon the enemy like an unforeseen storm. The Kingdom's future is thrown into chaos. William, Wyatt, and Grant, three boys escape the massacre only to be swept by the current into England. Now, wards of King William, their identities erased, are forged into weapons for a different war.
Violence ripples outward. In Raven Hollow another family is slaughtered. Two sons forged by vengeance: "Angus: the mercenary who hunts the clan making him an orphan & Killian, the laird haunted by a murdered mother and lost past.
Wyatt, forever 2nd-born by 3-min. conspires with the ghosts of the past, and orchestrates the murder of his older twin brother, William.