The Mackay Rules: Never Tell and Never Leave
In a village in northwest Scotland crofters whisper about the house at the end of the street: a witch and her brother live there. It's Margaret Mackay, they grumble, who unleashed the plague; it's she who cursed the animals and the land.
But the year is 1997 not 1560 and Margaret and Hugh barely believe in the plague; it's the strath's four ghosts they want to keep secret. Ostracism and loneliness are just the lot of the Witching Mackays. But as the summer draws to a close a mysterious Londoner arrives in pursuit of gold buried in a loch.
Enigmatic Louis Talbot is in desperate need of his own new beginning. Armed with a strange book and a tantalizing account of a family who can speak to the ghost guarding the gold; Louis sets his sights on the vulnerable, lonely Margaret Mackay.
As myths become reality and gold, ghosts, and the plague become entangled, Hugh and Margaret are forced to confront the reality that failure will mean the destruction and death of everything they've ever known.
