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A Hebridean community discovers the most iconic of Scottish artifacts -- the Stone of Destiny. Conspiracy to hide the Stone grows as more and more members of the community are drawn into the age-old tug of war between the autonomy of the Isles and the forces of crown bureaucracy. A tale of a community getting one-up on the system, the lass getting the lad, the downtrodden having at least a couple not-bad days, and New Agers getting a wee poke in the ribs.

The tumble of Gaelic history through the Highland Clearances and the Irish Land Wars provide this novel's momentum. Threaded through the historical drama is a modern American woman's quest for rooted identity and her affair with an Irish Republican. At the story's center is the enigma of Rona, the Selkie. Is she a mythic creature, or the shattered consequence of social injustice? While the ancestral story moves through struggle, loss, and fortitude, the modern story tangles with questions of history's legacy -- how we make choices about what to carry, and how to move forward with inherited...