Histoires Incroyables

In Edinburgh's Botanical Gardens, beneath a summer sunset, Gillian Lamond and Dove Gainswood confess a love that feels at once tender, dangerous, and destined. Their romance unfolds against a backdrop of family duty, inheritance, and hidden ambition: Gillian, a proud Highland cousin with a complicated future, has long lived under the shadow of Dove's formidable father, the lawyer Gideon Gainswood, whose piety masks greed and ruthless calculation. What begins as a secret engagement soon becomes a test of loyalty and power, as Gainswood discovers the truth, forbids the match, and reveals just how quickly his composure can give way to fury. As Dove waits in anxious hope, Gillian is drawn away into military service in Persia, and the novel widens from intimate domestic tension to the violence of empire. From the siege of Mohammerah to the tense pursuit toward Akwaz, the campaign is rendered in vivid detail, with Highlanders, grenadiers, steamers, and gun-boats moving through smoke, shellfire, and loss. Love, family conflict, and war become inseparable as Gillian's fate grows uncertain and Dove's sorrow deepens. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.