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It is the year 1613, and King James is sending his messenger Andrew Logan into Scotland with secret orders to arrest Sir David Moray, close friend and advisor of the late Prince Henry. Secrets are second nature to Andrew, who must hide his Second Sight to stay alive. Joined by a court scrivener and the scrivener's spirited daughter Phoebe, Andrew slowly untangles the true purpose of his mission—to frame Sir David for Prince Henry's murder. But Andrew is unwilling to betray an innocent man.

From Italy in 1733 to Edinburgh in 1831 to a series of chilling murders in London in 1870 and a lethal game of revenge decades later, a watch touches lives with misfortune - until it comes into the hands of one young woman who might be able to stop it for good. This outstanding collaboration between four outstanding novelists follows characters who are irrevocably linked by fate, each one playing a key role in breaking the curse once and for all.

Dopo la morte della sorella Katrina, Eva, giovane stella del cinema, decide di abbandonare la California per fare ritorno in Cornovaglia, nella casa della loro infanzia e delle estati spensierate. Nonostante gli anni trascorsi oltreoceano, Eva sa che il legame che la vincola a quei luoghi è indissolubile. Ma in quella casa aleggiano anche i fantasmi del suo passato... e non solo. Tra le antiche mura Eva avverte delle presenze, gli spiriti di coloro che vi hanno vissuto prima della sua famiglia, fin dal XVIII secolo.

In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Scottish Highlands to the Borderlands are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union with England. An invasion is imminent as many plot to bring the exiled young Jacobite king back to Scotland to reclaim his throne, and in Edinburgh, the streets are filled with discontent and danger. Queen Anne, seeking to calm the situation, has sent money up from London for Scots who took part eight years earlier in the ill-fated Darien expedition that left Scotland all but bankrupt.