"Please believe me," he started, "I know you must have many questions and I'm not being reticent, I genuinely cannot help you. The answers, I am afraid, you will have to find for yourself, but maybe this will help." He drew a small envelope from his inside pocket...The envelope handed over by a solicitor on the quayside of a Scottish Highland village, contained a map and small key and sets the narrator on a quest to find the identity of her unknown beneficiary, Avylis.An austere bothy in the Highlands of Scotland; a case full of papers and a faded picture in the village café are the only clues, but together they provide an enigmatic key to unlock the door to an unexpected adventure of self discovery.