A Relic of WarMordecai Ledbury, crippled, ugly and saturnine, the most famous advocate of his time and an expert at making enemies, spends a night in a dilapidated old house where his family once lived, hoping to discover what event in her early life had turned his strange and embittered mother into a monster of malice. By morning, outside the bedroom where Mordecai had slept, a masked intruder lies dead, the back of his head blown off by a shot from a heavy

Home to the most valuable jewels on earth

and decidedly irritated

Marian Keyes

But the intervening years spawned a legend that never quite lost its grip on the popular imagination of Glasgow

but the battle for his family has just begun

Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London

Everyone knew who the killer was because the daughter told them before her death

Paxton never thought hed be working Security for the company that ruined his life

Has she been sent to save the realm or destroy it

His year in Hollywood completed

often hilarious

Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades