Set in historic East Ayrshire, Scotland, birth place of Sir Alexander Fleming discoverer of penicillin, home of Scottish poet Robert Burns and Johnnie Walker whiskey.

Situated in Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley lays a brooding castle who's silent stones are witness to a shadowy past of spies, traitors, and assassins. Concealed behind its melancholy facade are grim tragedies and torment. The muffled screams of unbearable pain and despair echo there still.

A missing Laird and a dead assassin are only the start of the most complex plot ever to involve the incredible Paladin and his unique team as they race to solve their most baffling mystery yet.

The Paladin tracks a phantom fiend the likes of which he has never before hunted. Or is he the one being hunted?