Donald Ross of Heimra (Volume 2 of 3)

The narrative follows life in a remote island community where local rhythms, superstitions, and property disputes intersect with outside intervention and personal relations. It traces a well-meaning outsider whose philanthropic ideals collide with the hard facts of crofter life, a young man's involvement with village affairs, and a cast of neighbors including a simple girl facing institutional threat and lighthouse-keepers haunted by uncanny incidents. The plot moves through inquiries into crofters' grievances, legal skirmishes and contested land practices, private romances and social misunderstandings, and culminates in a threatened popular upheaval that is raised and then fails, all rendered against a windswept coastal landscape.