Book excerpt: With murder, betrayal, thievery and action set in the elegance and propriety of 1756 Aberdeen, Scotland, the regal Nachmasheeghan family lives an enviable and posh life. More money, respect and power than one family should have, they all but own the town'¦until the day the equally loved and loathed family patriarch, Ian Nachmasheeghan dies, leaving his grieving widow and five sons to carry on in his stead. Spoiled rotten, the young men are not prepared for the burden'¦and the truth of the dark and heartbreaking family secret divulged to them at the reading of their father's will. Enter Tolliver Jean-Leferr, a boorish man of means. The plot thickens as Tolliver's knowledge of whom and what Ian Nachmasheeghan truly was before settling down, can offer the family salvation. But the rogue is not concerned with the family's salvation'¦only what he wants'¦and what he knows can bring the powerful Nachmasheeghans to their knees once and for all!