Amsterdam 1648, Captain Andrew Ross, a young officer of the Scots Brigade serving in the Dutch Republic, falls in love with the beautiful Catharina Meyer, daughter of a rich merchant family of Amsterdam. Newly married Captain Andrew begins to plan a life for himself and his bride in his beloved Scotland but soon the newly weds find themselves caught up in a web of deception and lies

which changes the course of their young lives forever. New England 2016 and Janey McKay leaves New York and makes her way back to her childhood home after the collapse of her marriage. She fills her first long, lonely New England winter by joining the local Historical Association embarking on a journey of ancestral disovery which takes her back along the ancient roads of Europe in search of her ancestors. What she discovers challenges everything she thought she knew about her family’s past.