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|  | | Among His Personal Effects
What is it like to be a teacher-to see one's great aspirations for his or her students bent, broken, or re-fashioned by the twists and turns of fortune? Now at the very end of his life, Robert Henryson looks back on a time of great tumult. Based on an event from Scottish history--the hanging of certain retainers of King James III by disgruntled Scottish noblemen at Lauder Bridge in 1482-the novel follows the lives of four characters whose lives are inextricably linked to one another by the fatal event at Lauder and by their relationship to Henryson, their old schoolmaster.
Master Robert Henryson has spent his life shaping the talents of his
students in Scotland. But what control, if any, can he have over the twists and turns of Fortune’s wheel? Especially when the only law that reigns belongs to the rich...and turns a blind eye toward injustice and the poor?
Now at the end of his life, Henryson looks back on the chain of events that catapulted four of his students—Ingram, John, George, and the lovely Isabel—onto paths they could never have imagined. Nor could Henryson have dreamed that the summer of 1482 would change everything about his life...and perha | |  | | An Early Fall
The Battle of Flodden, the disastrous consequence of James IV's attempt of to invade England in 1513, had a profound effect on all of Scotland, rich and poor. This is no less true in the families of the Guthrie household and of Selkirk burgesses, whose fates are intertwined in a story of murder and lust, bravery and grace.
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King James of Scotland’s noose has been tightening around the neck of Sir Alexander Guthrie for years. Now, with England continuing to raid the Scottish Borders, King James decides to attack the neighboring country. To Alex, everything about this venture smacks of the sovereign’s reckless disregard for the people of Scotland. Yet, as a knight, is Alex doomed to leave all he holds dear—powerless to do anything but follow?br />
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