MacFarlane's Lantern

Ralph Barrington was a very young man when he inherited the run-down Georgian mansion of Redwoods in Winchester. In accordance with Margaret Fitzgerald’s will Ralph was unable to sell his inheritance; therefore he and his teenage daughter Roselyn known as Ros were forced to make the best of things and to live in just a few of the rooms. Ralph’s wife Charlotte was a depressant: she had cruelly denied Ros at birth and then Ros re-meets Andrew Frazer MacFarlane who has had an equally tragic and difficult beginning to his life; but not only has Andrew got himself entangled with a woman who is determined never to let him go but he also harbours a fearful dark secret.. Set amongst some of Scotland’s most dramatic scenery this is a powerful tale as seen through the eyes of an eighteenth century former daughter of the house Marguerite Fitzgerald Campbell an adventuress during the Jacobite uprisings who suffered a cruel rape; she had a child. There is a mystery surrounding the child’s parentage which becomes a vital link in saving Redwoods and the North and South Timber Mills from being demolished. And just who is the mysterious Rafe Frazer?. Drama! Scandal! Intrigue! Mystery! Romance!