After the brutal killing of his stepfather on the night of a great wedding, fourteen year-old Martin Farrell is forced to make a perilous search for his real kin, his rightful heritage - and his own, true, identity. . . Enter the legendary world of the Borderland reivers where bloods feuds, blackmail, robbery and vengeance are rife. And witness Martin Farrell's shocking discovery of his own birthright and of an inheritance that poses the most murderous of choices. . . . Janni Howker is a previous winner of The Whitbread Children's Novel Award and The Young Observer Fiction Prize