Two aristocratic families, one that traces its bloodlines back to Robert the Bruce, and the other who are members of the extended Russian Romanov Imperial family, intersect during the chaos of the first quarter of the twentieth century. There is a battle for succession, the bloody deserts of the Sinai, shellshock, revolution, wayward children and the politics of the 1930s as the world tumbles inevitably towards another war. This one is fought in the skies above Europe and the resultant tragedy echoes across the lowlands of Scotland. This saga, in three books, traces the triumphs and disasters of the two families from 1917 to the present day.