The tattered brown diary mysteriously appears on the food table at Clara Campbell Macrae's funeral. Clara's daughter, Margaret Rose, struggles to read the diary's archaic language hoping to inherit a bit of the courage of its author, believed to be her 18th century ancestor, Ewan Macrae, who journeyed across the ocean to the Americas fleeing the slaughter of Highlanders following the Battle of Culloden. Margaret struggles to overcome years of abuse by her mother, the suspicion that she killed the woman, the mystery of her father's disappearance and her own heritage. She is also looking for...