The Kings of this world come and go, as do the ways in which most live. But we chose a different life, a different way, an old way. We are the descendants of warriors who fought for a land free and fair, now we fight for what is lost. Our desire to live free drove us north, from the Highlands, to the sea and finally the islands that lay beyond it, to the Shelterlands; islands shrouded in mist. United under the family that brought us here, to them we offer our swords, to us they offer the Failtche oath and to the outside world we are hope in times of trouble.
For our history, though woven with myth and legend is that of fierce warriors willing to die upon their honor; to fight for what is right against all odds. In times of trouble call us on the wind and a warrior of old will take up your cause. On a stormy night many a sailor has claimed to see a haunted ship adrift, but with the dawn found no trace. Many believe they are ghost ships, crew and vessel lost to the seas, a few know they are the Failtche, called out to right a wrong; or finish a fight. Yet none dare to follow them home. For the sea before the mists has swallowed man and ship alike, only the fiercest sailors have dared to enter and few return.
Some believe it a curse, others a force of nature, the truth is the waters choose. And only those born of the mists, and chosen by them shall ever know the depths of the lands hidden from the world. Jericho Anachel Sgiath, laird of the Shelterlands is forced to reunite the clans after treachery drove them apart. A challenge for any young leader but if she fails the Failtche Warring women may be lost in the fabric of time; a legacy destroyed by the one who came before her. And the first test proves a vital one, forcing the young laird to choose to trust the word of man she barely remembers; the oath of a warrior who abandoned their way.
The only catch, her mother had intended that she marry Lachlan Ferguson once, they were both children when the arrangement was made. Only the man she meets knows little of the oath he is fulfilling or the world he has stepped into; but his mother does. Sending the wife and child of an organized crime boss into the mists, and sending her son home; Anachel Ferguson's last act is a battle cry. But will Jericho take it up with the full strength of the clans at her back?