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Path in the Dark
Early fourteenth-century England. Eighteen-year-old Donald has concealed his Scots speech and resentment at Lanercost Priory for a decade. A brutal punishment and a secret letter reveal that William de Lamberton, Bishop of St Andrews, paid to hide his illegitimate son among the monks, and Donald flees before he can be forced into permanent vows.
In Carlisle, rescuing a wounded knight draws him into a household marked by two deaths and a new ambush. While rumours of Robert the Bruce’s rising spread along the border, Donald investigates a pattern of apparent accidents and discovers that the de Awnes family’s past threatens both his protectors and the identity he has only just recovered.
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