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"I highly recommend Jocki MacTavish by Albert Marsolais for preteens and anyone who enjoys a great story!" - Reviewed by Melinda Facal for Readers' FavoriteFeral cats are disappearing in the fishing village near Torrport, Scotland. No one cares about them but Jocki MacTavish, the eleven-year-old son of the tavern-keeper. Jocki soon finds that the cats are not the only ones missing.This is an adventure novel suited to young readers (9-13).

Malcolm Forrester, a physician from Edinburgh, and ElspethMacLeod, a healer from the Isle of Skye, were both educated inEuropean universities but only men are permitted to practicemedicine in the Scotland of 1705. The two collide in Torrport, a small town near Edinburgh, Elspeth stubbornly seeking recognition as a physician, and Malcolm searching for a cure forsmallpox amid the swirling vortex of war, politics, religion and disease. Poverty and misadventure are ever-present and medicine a curious blend of old beliefs and new discoveries. Elspeth delivers a beautiful young woman of her bastard child and suspects she was poisoned. When the Laird's Second-inCommand is found dead, kneeling face down in a tub at the laundry, the two find themselves entangled in murder, smuggling, and espionage, amid powerful opposition that resists change.