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Highland Ballad
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Title: Highland Ballad
Author: Christopher Leadem
Release Date: September, 2004 [EBook #6591] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on December 26, 2002]
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Language: English
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HIGHLAND BALLAD Approximately 65,000 Words (Historical Fiction)
Copyright 1995 by Christopher Leadem,
All rights reserved. ISBN: 0-88100-086-8
Aragorn Books
www.aragornbooks.com
HIGHLAND BALLAD
For Natasha
Part One: A Lingering Flame
One
The red sun rose slowly, achingly across the high Scottish moor, touching with melancholy gold the patching hoar frost and purple heath. For this was a land of pai