Overview

Christmas in Edinburgh should have been quiet.
It isn’t.
When a young woman is pulled from the icy waters of the Water of Leith, DI Blair “Mac” Mackenzie recognizes her instantly, the red-haired stranger she saw alive only hours earlier, furious and desperate outside a women’s shelter.
What begins as a single murder unravels into something far darker: missing women, a ruthless trafficking ring, and a city that hides its worst crimes behind neon lights and locked doors.
For the first time, Mac is not facing it alone.
Reverend Evelyn Taylor — calm, perceptive, and quietly unyielding — steps fully into the story, as the one person who can see past Mac’s armour and hold her steady as the case closes in. Their relationship is no longer something Mac can keep separate from the work, or from herself.
And then there is Skye.
A predator of predators.
Their confrontation — intimate, brutal, and inescapable — forces Mac to face a question she has spent her life avoiding:
How far would she go for justice?
And what would it cost her to cross that line?
Set against the hush of winter nights and the thunder of New Year’s fireworks, Bliadhna Mhath Ùr, Mac is a tense, emotionally charged novella about violence and compassion, justice and restraint, and the courage it takes to choose love over becoming what you hunt.
Because sometimes the hardest fight isn’t against monsters.
It’s against the ones who understand you best.