March 1, 1995 Jeff and Karla Matson married for time and all eternity in the Georgia Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jeff was 35 years old and a confirmed bachelor. Karla was divorced with three children. Jeff took on the greatest challenge of his life with love and laughter. Together they were blessed with four more children and their plans were to raise their family and grow old together. Instead Heavenly Father had a different plan. Together the family has stood together and faced the trials and tribulations life has to offer and their mission goes forward.

In this rich tale that began with Eyes of Garnet, Mary Duncan continues the saga of Catriona Robertson which began in the windswept mountains of the Scottish Highlands and takes us on a voyage to the rugged coast of 18th century Maine in this exciting historical novel of adventure, magic and romance ... Sightless Catriona Robertson has faced the perilous voyage across the sea to be with her father, Angus Robertson, one of the many injured Jacobites of the Rising of 1745 in Scotland. He was sentenced to seven years of indentured servitude in the American Colonies. Cat, the former Seer for clan Donnachaidh, has to keep a low profile in colonial Boston while she tries to fit into the growing commonwealth. However, her visions are guiding her to a place wild and untamed, not in the bustling town of Boston, but in the Province of Maine. But trouble follows Cat wherever she goes, as Scottish pirate Greame Hay finds out. He may live to regret the day he finds the feisty redhead aboard the ship he was looting, when he takes her to the land of her visions and they settle with the Lobster Clan of the Penobscot Indians. As battles are fought for the country she lives in, Cat is faced with a different kind of fight-one in a supernatural realm with a Mohawk Shaman bent on seeing the Penobscot people decimated. Will her abilities be strong enough to overpower this madman, or will he destroy her and the new family she's found?

In this evocative memoir, this granddaughter of a bootlegger tells the story of how she went out and got a life. Her father was a bus driver who died when she was four; her mother worked in a bar to support the kids. She did well in school and married a Protestant minister. From the parsonage, she went to the Playboy Mansion, where for many years she had a personal relationship with 60's guru Max Lerner. Through Max and others, she developed a friendship with DNA scientist, Francis Crick; a fascination for Henry Miller, Simone de Beauvoir and pioneers of the sexual revolution. A United Nations Conference took her to the Soviet Union, where she married a second time and founded Moscow Shakespeare and Company Bookstore. As a college professor. her research on playgrounds in troubled countries took her to Belfast, Tehran and Managua. Mary lives between California and Paris, where she created the Paris Writers Group. She is actively involved with the literary community and is writing a new book about love, literature and death on a Paris street.

In this thrilling finale of the Eyes of Garnet trilogy, Catriona Robertson is searching for her purpose. It is said in Scotland when a Seer leaves their homeland, their powers of the Sight remain behind. Though Cat never fully loses her powers, the sixth sense she once had so intensely has diminished. And in the 18th century Province of Maine, blindly staying ahead of trouble is an all-consuming task. The Indians all over the northeast are becoming more displaced as white settlers take their lands. The French, who've lived peaceably with the natives for over a hundred years, feel their place in the burgeoning new America threatened by the insatiable English. And when Cat sees a young English soldier named George Washington fire the first shot that sets the world to war, she wonders if she and the settlement of Cape Rozier can remain out of the impending confrontation. Add to that, the mysterious discovery of pirate's gold on the beach of Cape Rozier draws in kidnappers who will stop at nothing to claim it for themselves. The last straw is when Cat doesn't see the treachery lurking in her own back yard. Visions of Scotland and Maine confuse her further, badgering her to make a monumental decision: remain in war-torn America or return to Scotland.

Gregor Macgregor, an 18th century Scottish Highlander, has seen his fair share of death. The Campbells saw to that with his father's murder at the strange standing stones when he was ten. As one of the hunted clan-as all Macgregors are-Gregor learned to melt into the mountains and stay one step ahead of the hunters: Clan Campbell. With no family left, the man-sized child roamed the heather for two years before being taken in by Alexander Robertson, the Chief of Clan Donnachaidh. Now a cocky man of twenty-one, and contender for chief's guard, Gregor must prove himself at the Games that his strength and cunning are worthy to serve. After taking his safety at Blair Castle for granted for so long, Gregor once again becomes entangled with the Campbells when the murders of several Macgregors in his old hometown sound all too familiar. Could his father's killer still be on the loose after all these years? Gregor scoffs when he learns he's the killer's next intended victim, but his bold confidence is shattered when the killer abducts the woman he desires, leaving her worse than dead. Alexander assigns Gregor the task of hunting down this butcher to be brought back to the castle alive. But this may prove an impossible task, as his posse is comprised of Macgregors who've all lost at the hands of this Campbell.

Catriona Robertson has what 18th century Scottish Highlanders call Second Sight. It's not all that rare, but in her family it's been fatal. After having a vision of her brother's life-changing accident at the Games at Blair Castle, then watching in horror as it comes true, her family starts to believe in her powers. Cat needs to find a way to harness her "gift" and heal her mother's debilitating disease, but fate seems to have something else in store. When the Pretender to the Scottish throne, the Jacobite Prince Charles, decides to seize his rightful place from the Hanoverian King George, her powers are put to the ultimate test. Cat becomes an unwilling liaison between her clan Chief and the Prince, foretelling the outcome of each battle of the Rising of 1745. Though warned of the outcome of their participation in the fight, her father and brothers are drawn into it as if by malevolent forces. Unwilling to let her visions of death come to fruition, Cat does everything in her power to keep them out of harm's way, finding herself thrust into the very heart of what she fears the most.