Bloodlines

An epic tale of love, loss and revenge set amidst the turmoil of Scotland after Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

The rebellion is over, Scotland has its rightful king, and the battlefields lie still—for now. Fleance, son of Banquo, has brought a new dawn to Scotland, and in the process become a very different man from the lowly huntsman who rode north to save his country.

A generation has passed since Macbeth, but still there are evil forces at work across the land. Civil war is imminent, and there are traitors at the castle gates. The witches who foresaw Fleance’s rise to power are watching and scheming once again. And there is turmoil, too, within the king’s own soul: urged to marry a princess and strengthen his claim to the throne, he must choose between Rachel, of royal bloodline, and his first love, Rosie, whom he left behind.

With the rebels circling and his crown starting to slip, the time has come for Fleance to prove that Scotland is in his heart as well as in his blood.

Revised edition: This edition of Bloodlines includes editorial revisions.

T. K. Roxborogh lives in Dunedin, New Zealand, and has been an English and Drama teacher since 1989. Born in Christchurch, she spent the first twenty-five years of her life living around the country, experiencing everything from tobogganing on the slopes of Lake Ellesmere to scuba diving in the Bay of Islands. Now an award-winning author, she has published works across a range of genres: novels, plays for the classroom, Shakespearean texts, English grammar books and adult non-fiction. She spends most days juggling teaching, studying and writing, and, with her husband, runs around after their family—both the two-legged and four-legged kind. Roxborogh loves reading, watching movies and TV shows, and staying in her pyjamas for as long as possible.