On a recent trip to Scotland, my family and I went looking for Brigadoon.
We didn’t find it. The mythical village that appears out of the mist only one day out of every hundred years proved elusive to us, but Scotland holds many treasures. In the Low-lands we found Lady Valéry’s eighteenth-century manor (or one much like I imagined), the original setting of Mary Fairchild’s story in A Well Pleasured Lady. On the wild west coast we explored an estate much like the one Ian Fairchild won—along with his wife—in A Well Favored Gentleman. Finally, in the midst of the Highlands, we discovered a moldering castle, and I remembered, Mary’s brother Hadden, a man badly in need of a story. When I came home to Texas, the stones of that castle rose in my mind, and I created Andra to be a mate to the incomparable Hadden.
I hope you enjoyed this tale, and as well as the Fairchild tales.
And I’ll see you in Brigadoon.