Doom Castle

The year is 1746. The Jacobite Rising has been crushed at Culloden, and Scotland lies wounded under the Hanovers. Into this broken landscape rides Count Victor, a young Franco-Scot with a double mission: to find the informant who sold the Jacobite cause to the English, and to hunt down the mysterious Drimdarroch, a man whose name is spoken only in whispers. His quest leads him to Doom Castle, a crumbling fortress teetering on the edge of the Highlands, where the enigmatic Baron holds court with his strange servants and his captivating daughter. What begins as a straightforward errand of revenge curdles into something far more unsettling. Victor finds himself entangled in dark family secrets, the lingering ghosts of a defeated rebellion, and a perilous game where trust becomes the most dangerous currency. Munro writes with atmospheric precision, capturing the grief and defiance of a nation in defeat, the weight of oaths sworn and causes lost. This is Scottish gothic at its finest: mist-shrouded, dangerous, and haunted by the past.