Marmaduke

Captain Marmaduke Muir has been away for ten years. When he finally returns to Drummuir Castle, the Scotland that greets him is not the one he left. His father, the elderly Lord Drummuir, has grown frail. The family estate hangs in the balance, and Marmaduke discovers his childhood companion, Marrion Paul, has somehow reentered his life. Their shared past pulses beneath present tensions, she carries secrets about the family, about what happened during his long absence. A potential marriage threatens to reshape everything: the estate's future, the family hierarchy, the unspoken bond between Marmaduke and Marrion. Steel weaves a story where duty collides with desire, where loyalty fractures under the weight of inheritance and expectation. This is a novel about what we owe to blood and what we owe to ourselves, set in a world that modernity is about to crack open forever.