Lauchlin Of The Bad Heart

There was a time when Lauchlin MacLean was a promising welterweight boxer a time when his heart was strong and fit a time when he might have had a future. But instead he stayed in his tightly knit Cape Breton community in an island of safety where family roots run deep. Now in his 50s Lauchlin finds his heart tested again by a beautiful blind woman the wife of a friendand by a dark plot for revenge born of blood spilled in the forests that surround the village. The award-winning bestselling author of Cape Breton Road brings us a spellbinding story of family loyalties and sexual betrayals. In Lauchlin of the Bad Heart D. R. MacDonald combines expert pacing and sharply drawn characters with a haunting brooding portrait of the Cape Breton