Silent Destiny

Have you ever received a phone call that changed your life? Emma Walters, a Canadian professor at the University of Victoria, is about to have that experience. Up until now, she has lived an extraordinarily quiet life with very few complications, but that is all about to change. Summoned to Edinburgh, Scotland in the winter of 2006, she learns she will inherit a very unique and old Scottish estate ... if she agrees to certain unusual conditions attached to the legacy. It was all rather unbelievable to Emma, yet certainly worthy of investigation. In Scotland, she meets Alexander Wallace who explains the remarkable connection between their two families who have been inseparably linked since the events of the Scottish Wars of Independence in the early 14th century. She is told that without William Wallace's influence, inheriting the Traymore title and its substantial estate, would not have been possible. She finds herself tossed into the depths of a 700 year-old Scottish mystery concerning the man known as Braveheart and a previously unknown family. She begins to be haunted by bewildering dreams and stories of missing artifacts that could very well be found by her as she fits the description of a long ago prophesy. Knowing nothing about Scottish history, Alex seeks to enlighten her and she soon realizes that he has a vested interest in her decision. Meanwhile, her appetite for history increases and she becomes fascinated by the potential involvement of the crusading knights known as the Hospitallers. She becomes wary of accepting this inheritance of such immense responsibility ... and her time for decision is quickly running out. Duty bound, it falls on Alex's shoulders to persuade her that the benefits of the 21st century will easily override her historical demons ... despite being far from convinced himself. This is the 4th collaboration by husband and wife team, J. Robert Whittle and Joyce Sandilands.