Harsh Heritage Author:Nigel G. Tranter, Nigel Tranter The story opens in the western Highlands of Scotland in 1817. The Highland Clearances have begun, and everywhere landowners are brutally evicting their tenants, condemning them to a grim future of starvation and despair. Amid this unfolding tragedy, one particularly terrible act of cruelty leads to a dreadful curse being placed on the family, ... more »lands, and descendants of the man responsible--Edward Macarthy Neill. From that moment on, Neill's family will never be out of danger, as the curse pursues them relentlessly down through the generations....« less