CAST OF CHARACTERS

Ginny Forbes

An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurse at Hillcrest Regional Medical Center

Sinia Forbes

Ginny’s mother

Jim Mackenzie

An Emergency Room (ER) physician at Hillcrest

Angus Mackenzie (“Himself”)

The Laird of Loch Lonach, Jim’s grandfather

Tomas DeSoto

A Drug Enforcement Agency officer

Hue Tran

A Dallas Police Crimes Against Persons Unit Detective

Phyllis Kyle

The victim, an ICU nurse at Hillcrest

Marjorie Hawkins

ICU Head Nurse at Hillcrest

Lisa Braden

An ICU nurse at Hillcrest

Grace Edmunds

An ICU nurse at Hillcrest

Luis Perez

An abandoned five year old

Clara Carpenter

A Political Activist

Fergus Stewart

Second cousin to Ginny, a gallóglaigh

Loch Lonach is a Scottish community established before Texas became a Republic in the geographic region that would become Dallas. It has retained its culture and identity. Loch Lonach boasts its own schools, police force, churches, and other civic institutions. The head of the community is the Laird, currently Angus Mackenzie.