Maggie Craig

Edinburgh, Yuletide 1743, and Redcoat officer Robert Catto would rather be anywhere else on earth than Scotland. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city's town guard, Robert fears his covert mission to assess the strength of the Jacobite threat will force him to confront the past he tries so hard to forget.

Since losing their parents, Kate and Andrew Dunbar have been living with their cold-hearted aunt and uncle within the vaults of Edinburgh's South Bridge. Worked relentlessly, Kate has little chance to secure a different way of life for herself and her brother. Until the day that Richard Hope walks into her life...

As the daughter of the Stationmaster, Carrie Burgess has a charmed life, but when her father dies she and her mother are forced out of their home and money is tight. Ignoring her true feelings for labourer Ewan, Carrie marries Matt Campbell, but finds that his earlier devotion hides a violent man.

A lively social and political history of Glasgow through the First World War, the Roaring Twenties, the Hungry Thirties and the Clydebank Blitz. The men and women of Glasgow, Clydebank and beyond fought for the right to work, the dignity of labour and a fairer society for everyone.