Caroline Emma Corbett Reid and her husband Thomas hail from Charleston, SC, but move to the estate of Alladale in Scotland when a nasty family lawsuit ruins their reputation. After five glorious years living at Alladale, the beautiful Caroline awakens tied to her bed inside her favorite suite, the Willow. After three days without food or water, she realizes her end is near. 

This story features flashbacks of her life in Charleston, SC, and Inverness, Scotland, and her struggle to remember what happened in the final days before finding herself shackled. The listener is quickly drawn into this tale of greed and murder as the lives of this couple are detailed. Historical facts mingle with the appeal of a mystery in this whodunit will keep the listener engaged late into the night.

Castles in the Snow is based on Paul Lister, a true ecologist and the actual founder of Alladale, a 23,000-acre wilderness reserve in the Scottish Highlands. Paul’s goal is to create a controlled wolf reserve within his beloved estate. This great conservationist’s story has received media attention from 60 Minutes and other sources in the US and the UK. The importance of philanthropists like Paul Lister and their impact on our world challenges us to take the fate of our planet seriously.