K eegan Mac Carthaigh! Untie me this instant!” Brianna shouted as she stomped her leather slippers with all her strength. Against the soggy forest floor, all she accomplished was covering her newest slippers in a layer of mud and displacing a few wet leaves. She struggled against her binds but, as usual, they were quite […]

TEARS STREAMED DOWN her cheeks and her throat burned from the acrid smell of smoke so thick, the entire world seemed to be engulfed by its haze. Coughs tore at her lungs and she dropped to her knees, desperate for relief from her agony. Clawing at the ground, she felt clumps of dirt crumble in […]

A WHİSTLE LOUD enough to wake the dead made him yelp with fear and quickly scramble out of his bed, tripping over the tangle of sheets around his small feet. Shouts followed by footsteps echoed down the hall just outside his chamber. Dunnottar was under attack! Grabbing the wooden sword his papa had made just […]

TEMPLES THROBBİNG, HE closed his eyes and slowly nodded, no longer knowing what he was even nodding about. No treaty was worth this torture. His clan laughed in the hall of Dunnottar Castle while enjoying a meal, but all William Keith could hear was the incessant blathering of the child beside him, brought to him […]

“Curse it all, Ruby!” Papa slammed his fist on the intricately carved wooden banister for what felt like the hundredth time that night, the vein in his neck throbbing as it did when she defied him, which seemed to be more and more as of late. “William and the other guests will be here shortly […]

THE FİRE FROM the hearth leapt at the chance to devour the parchment, wax seal, and all. The moment her eyes saw the crest of the Laird of Drum Castle, home of their rival clan, her skin had begun to crawl. No doubt the missive had been delivered bearing the unwelcome news she had dreaded […]

IN THE YEAR of our Lord 854, a wee lad by the name of Arthur MacAlpin set out on an adventure that would turn the tides of his fortune, for what could be more exciting than being feared and showered with gold? Arthur wanted to be king. A sovereign as great as King Arthur, who […]