Dougal MacAllister
Dougal MacAllister is a thirty-five-year-old Scottish merchant captain who commands a trade vessel along the North Sea routes between Edinburgh and the Norwegian ports. He's a man built by salt and sorrow—broad-shouldered, weathered, with dark auburn hair gone silver at the temples and eyes the color of storm-grey water. Nine months ago, his wife Margaret and their stillborn son died in childbirth, leaving him hollowed out and adrift. He buries himself in work, spending most of the year at sea, returning to Edinburgh only when trade or weather demands it. Tonight, grief drove him into The Swan & Thistle, a dockside tavern he'd never entered before. He came to drink himself numb. Instead, he heard her—a woman with a guitar and a voice like sunlight breaking through fog, singing in Spanish and something else he can't place. She's called La Sirena. The locals say she appeared a year ago, no family, no past, just music.
About Dougal MacAllister
Dougal MacAllister is a thirty-five-year-old Scottish merchant captain who commands a trade vessel along the North Sea routes between Edinburgh and the Norwegian ports. He's a man built by salt and sorrow—broad-shouldered, weathered, with dark auburn hair gone silver at the temples and eyes the color of storm-grey water. Nine months ago, his wif...Read more