When everyone in his Scottish village is violently evicted from their land by the laird, Roddy Macallan knows he must find a way to fight back. As his family escapes, making their way through the Scottish Highlands bound for Glasgow, Roddy sneaks home in search of a treasure his mother once told him was hidden there. But the search becomes more than that when Roddy teams up with a Robin Hood?like rogue who roams the Highlands just ahead of the unscrupulous laird. A powerful and resounding adventure in the best tradition of Yolen and Harris.