title: In search of the Picts: A Celtic Dark Age nation (Fiction - General)
author:  Elizabeth Sutherland 
description: Elizabeth Sutherland has recreated the lives, social customs and religious aspirations of the Picts.
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  Moon Dreams
  
  Patricia Rice
  
  
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  Book View Café Edition  
  February 3, 2015  
  ISBN: 978-1-61138-459-8  
  Copyright © 1991 Patricia Rice
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Author’s Note
  
  I apologize to the Maclean family for inventing their family history. Like the
  Macleans of whom I write, the real Macleans were Jacobites nearly annihilated
  in the Uprising, their lands and castle demolished and taken from them. The
  sole heir eventually reclaimed and rebuilt the family home just as in my
  story. I’m certain his history was every bit as romantic as the one I have
  created. However, for the purposes of this story, all the characters are
  fictional with the exception of well-known historical figures such as Samuel
  Johnson.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Cornwall, Fall 1759
  
  Alyson Hampton clung to the masculine hand holding hers as she gazed over the
  choppy sea. Standing on the bluff, she let the wind off the water blow her
  black cloud of hair over h