The Secret Portrait

Fleeing An Academic Scandal And A Broken Marriage, Jean Fairbairn Has Come To Scotland To Work For An EdinburghBased History And Travel Magazine. Writing About The Scottish National Pastime Of Playing Illusion Off Reality Is Just The Quiet, Scholarly Pursuit She Needs To Soothe Her BurnedOut Emotions. But When Jean Heads For The Highlands To Investigate The 18Th Century Mystery Of Bonnie Prince CharlieS Lost Treasure, She Finds Herself Involved In A Contemporary Murder CaseAnd Not As An Innocent Bystander, Either. Alasdair Cameron, The Police Detective In Charge, Has His Own Perspective On Reality And Illusion. The American DotCom Millionaire Living Out His Tartan Fantasies In A Restored Mansion Is The Loosest Of Loose Cannons. His Trophy Wife IsnT Necessarily Standing By Her Man. Their Housekeeper Knows WhatS Going To Happen Before It Does. And Their Youth Piper Is A Kilted Daydream, Even Though His Parents Are Nightmares. At Glendessary House, Old Wounds And Old Glories ArenT Distant Memories Evoked Over A Glass Of SingleMalt, To The Skirl Of The Pipes. Here, They Are Up Close, Personal, And Deadly. ItS A Good Thing Jean Has BackUp In Edinburgh. Because If Butting HeadsNot To Mention HeartsWith Cameron IsnT Enough To Do Her In, Then A Killer Is Waiting And Watching, With A Motive For Murder Not Hidden Nearly Deeply Enough In The Past.