George MacDonald Fraser, The Candlemass Road 21st November 2007

Didn't give this enough attention. A Border romance set in Elizabethan times; a lawless time of cattle rustling and peel towers. A very appropriate ending, as the heroine allows the hero to be murdered to protect her family.
There was never so mekill myschefe, robbry, spoiling and vengeance in Scotland that there is nowe. . . which I praye our Lord God to continewe (Thomas 'The Old Red Bull' Dacre)