The Spirit of the Dark Island: A Ghost Story

By Audrey McClellan

Polly Gillespie has ten thousand dollars given her by her unborn child's father before he disappeared. When she loses the baby, to a miscarriage, she decides to spend the money recuperating in Scotland, in a tiny place called Eilean Dubh, the Dark Island. There she hopes to find friendship and romance.Robert Burns MacDonald is the quintessential Scottish American. He owns three kilts; he's president or former president of most local and national Scottish organizations; and he's eaten more haggis than anyone this side of Scotland. He' a passionate supporter of Eilean Dubh, though he's never seen it. This summer he intends to go for a long-postponed visit.William Wallace MacDonald, his son, has had enough Scottish-American-ness to last him a lifetime, and he's especially sick of haggis. But he can't let his father visit Scotland alone; he's already had a serious heart attack. So he's going to accompany him to Eilean Dubh, though unwillingly.And Caillean Ferguson? Why, he's a ghostie, the specter of a doomed seaman, and what he wants is his lost wife, Peigi. He's come back to the Dark Island to find her. And he's looking in Polly's cottage.Besides these four, there's the usual cast: Darroch and Jean Mac an R?gh, Jamie and Mairi MacDonald, Sally and Ian MacDonald and their twin babies, Barabal Mac-a-Phi and her mother, Elspeth the seamstress, and enough other Eilean Dubh characters to bring the Dark Island's charm and major weirdnesses to life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0989400336
• ISBN13: 9780989400336
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Amber Skye Publishing LLC
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"