Bewitched by the ghosts of his past, Peter Angus Gillies embarks on a journey from his mundane job in Canada to the West Cost of Scotland, where he is embroiled in a hunt for lost Jacobite gold - a thrilling story of adventure, mystery and romance.

The prequel to the best-selling Ardnish Was Home and We Fought for Ardnish, this is a poignant story of love and family secrets set against true events during the horrors of the Boer War.

After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form a close bond, but when Francoise is injured and captured, DA realizes his feelings for her are much, much stronger...

Set in the West Highlands of Scotland and Gallipoli during the First World War, Ardnish Was Home is moving love story and engaging account of early twentieth-century Highland life.