A STRANGER TO THE TOWN Elizabeth Cunningham is seventeen years old when Adam Montgomery returns to his father's house. An orphanage girl, she has long kept house for the high-handed Rab Montgomery and his two other sons. But when Adam enters their lives, rejecting his father's demands to enter the family shawl manufacturing business, she knows things are about to change. THE SHIMMER OF THE HERRING After the death of their domineering father, James and Bethany Lowrie are forced to face their futures alone. Frustrated and unhappy in the marriages that their father forced them into, they set about trying to alter the course of their lives. But have they left it too late to realise their dreams?