The Four Iris Sisters

In times immemorial, four large stones—the Sisters of Skara—were erected on a remote Scottish headland. Legend has it that the stones were placed there by a grieving father to show his abducted daughters the way home. Anyone who raised a hand to topple the stones would be struck by a curse, and his family would be scattered to the winds, never to find their way home. Many years later, another father of four daughters built a house on this spot and knocked down the stones so they wouldn’t obstruct the view from his beautiful modern home. He went bankrupt, his wife died, and his daughters scattered across the world. Each of them had received from their mother, as a keepsake, a ring set with a different blue gemstone. These stones had once adorned a specially crafted necklace.

The first book in the series about the four sisters is dedicated to the life of the greatest among them, Iris, and her descendants, who preserved and passed down her ring—set with a blue opal—from mother to daughter, from Scotland to Australia. The ring and a painting of standing stones, painted by Iris’s mother, Amelia, draw her great-great-granddaughter like a magnet to her family’s home and history.

After trying his hand at various professions and traveling the world, ELINOR BUCCANAN She settled in York, United Kingdom. She began writing romance novels and family sagas—spanning the lives of several generations—under various pen names. She has won numerous awards. This is the first novel in a series of captivating stories that combine her passion for travel, her belief in the power of emotional love stories, and her enduring interest in the connection between the past and the present.