title: The Lore of Scotland: A Guide to Scottish Legends
author: Jennifer Westwood
description: "Within a few minutes of this book arriving, I had put bookmarks in five places and was roaring through the index. A lovely compilation. It's the real macabre." <br /> Terry Pratchett<br /><br />"An enthralling treasure chest of Scottish myths and legends... with this incredible collection, Westwood and Kingshill have ensured that... the stories of the past have now been preserved for future generations." <br /><i> Daily Record<br /></i><br />"This is a well researched book exploring the righ folklore of Scotland... the breadth and range of this book is wide... Amusing and erudite, it's also an excellent guide to local variations in Scottish culture." <br /> <i>Sunday Telegraph<br /></i>
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  ASHBLANE’S LADY
  
  Sophia James
  
  MILLS & BOON
  
  Bonny Laird of Ullyot
  
  Oh, bold border ranger
  
  Dark vengeance and danger
  
  Stalk thee relentless
  
  ‘Tween Jedburgh and Sark
  
  On come the reivers
  
  And wily South thievers
  
  Hail, soldiers of Ashblane
  
  Fight on till the end
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  Heathwater Castle, northwest England .
  
  30 September, 1358
  
  ‘There is a grounde called the Debatable Grounde, lying between the Realme
  
  of England and Scotland...’
  
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  ‘Ian!’ The anguished keening cry of a name travelled on the wind over
  Heathwater as Laird
  
  Alexander Ullyot tore off his jacket and rocked back and forth across the dead
  body of his
  
  clansman.
  
  Lady Madeleine Randwick, watching from the woods, could barely believe such
  emotion to
  
  come from him, for the Chief of the clan of Ullyot, born and bred in the
  Scottish Highlands and
  
  the bastard son of a royal father who had never claimed him, was far better
  known for his
  
  cruelty and callousness.
  
  And she could well understand why