Roland Ravenwood
A young emperor. Therapy does not heal him; it optimises him.
The Book
One blood,
two lives.
When Roland Ravenwood, Glasgow's young crime emperor, learns that his lover Elizabeth is pregnant, he rejects the child. To him the name is a curse; he will not hand down what he saw as a boy.
Elizabeth flees across the ocean to Los Angeles. On one side, a man settling scores with Scotland's old families and perfecting his system; on the other, a child behind the grey walls of an orphanage, learning early that no one is coming.
Do the sins of the fathers pass to the sons, or does every generation draw the same circle again?
“No one is coming.”
Characters
Whose story is it?
Elizabeth Sinclair
To protect her child, she leaves everything behind with her family.
Havi Sinclair
A child raised in an orphanage. He builds his own state in the schoolyard.
Marcus Hale
A former soldier. He teaches a child about war, and only later sees what he has sharpened.
World
Stone, mist
and ocean.
A map that stretches from Scotland's old clans to the streets of Los Angeles and the vineyards of Tuscany.
- GlasgowCity of the Ravenwoods
- AberdeenClan MacPherson, oil and the harbour
- EdinburghThe old order of the Frasers
- Los AngelesSt. Jude's and Oakwood Elementary
- ToskanaVineyards, mist and old families