Concluding the trilogy that began with THE ISLAND WIFE and continued with THE WIND FROM THE HILLS.

About fifteen years after the events in the last book Fay Ludlow, battered daugher-in-law of Innes, seeks refuge with her unknown mother-in- law on Mull with the abusive Tarrant men expected to follow her.

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