![The Candlemass Road](http://monsterbookshop.co.uk/cdn/shop/products/9780002713627.jpg?v=1702638293&width=1445)
From two forgotten incidents in the State Papers, the author of the work on Anglo-Scottish border history, The Steel Bonnets , has woven a tale which presents the reality of life and sudden death on the reivers' frontier of 400 years ago, when lawlessness was the custom of the country .