num_pages: 222
description: Bruce McLennan stared down into the newly excavated depths. At the moment there was just a hole in the ground. But he could already see - a dungeon...The ghosts of his past haunt the tyrannical laird, Bruce McLennan. Driven away by his memories, he sets off on a wild journey across the world. After many adventures, and bringing with him his Chinese slave-girl, Peony, McLennan is drawn back to Scotland and the dark and terrifying dungeon he has ordered to be built beneath his castle. As Peony begins to find friendship with Fin, a young stable lad, her master becomes more and more obsessed with revenge and, after a bloody battle, McLennan's thirt for vengeance twists in a new direction. Who will he throw into his hellish dungeon? The one he hates, or the one who, unknowingly, he has come to love?
language: English
title: The Dungeon
titlecomplete: The Dungeon
characters: Fin, Peony, Bruce McLennan
genres: Historical, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 132
places: Scotland, China
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Booktrust Teenage Prize
publisher: Collins