It's 1758 and Europe is in turmoil - the Seven Years War is taking hold and Lond
on is ripe with deceit. The enigmatic Lord John Grey, a nobleman and high-rankin
g officer in His Majesty's Army, pursues a clandestine love affair and a deadly
family secret. Grey's father, the Duke of Pardloe, shot himself just days before
he was to be accused of being a Jacobite traitor.
Now, seventeen years on, t
he family name has been redeemed; but an impending marriage revives the scandal.
Lord John knows that as Whitehall whispers, rumours all too often lead their vic
tims to the wails of Newgate prison - and to the gallows. From barracks and para
de-grounds to the bloody battlefields of Prussia, Grey faces danger and forbidde
n passions in his search for the truth. But it is in the stony fells of the Lake
District that he finds the man who may hold the key to his quest: the enigmatic
Jacobite prisoner Jamie Fraser.
