The Boy in the Castle

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Some places keep secrets. Kildarran was built to bury them.

Edinburgh, 1874. When solicitor Euan MacKinnon is summoned north to investigate a lingering family legend at a remote Scottish castle, he expects little more than inheritance disputes and superstition. But Kildarran is no ordinary house, and its past is not content to remain buried.

Within its cold walls lives Lady Rosalind Dunloran, the last of her line, a woman whose life has been shaped by a single, unspoken night. Beneath the weight of illness and memory, she guards a truth that has outlived generations. What begins as a legal enquiry becomes something far darker.

As Euan draws closer to the heart of the mystery, he finds an unexpected ally in Dr. Miriam Hartley, whose rational mind begins to fracture under the pressure of what the house reveals. Together, they must confront a story not of a single act of violence, but of years of concealment, complicity, and quiet horror.

Because some secrets are not buried to protect the dead—but to shield the living from what they allowed to happen.

And when the truth finally emerges, it will not bring peace. Only reckoning . . .

A haunting historical mystery of memory, guilt, and the cost of silence—perfect for readers of Kate Mosse, Sarah Waters, and Hannah Kent.