Julia Brannan · 2016 · thriller

Julia Brannan's third Jacobite Chronicles novel. While the exiled Stuart court in Rome and its backers in France weigh an invasion, Alex MacGregor keeps up his masquerade as the foppish Sir Anthony in London, feeding intelligence north. Beth learns what her husband actually is, and the rising that everyone has been talking about for thirty years finally begins to move.

1. 1
   Rome

   At the exiled Stuart court in Rome, the old king's cause is kept alive on subsidies and hope - and his son Charles Edward, impatient with a lifetime of waiting, begins looking for the men and the money to do something about it.

2. 2
   Paris

   In France the prince works on ministers who will promise much and commit little, and the Jacobite agents move between Paris and the channel ports - an invasion perpetually one favourable wind away from happening.

3. 3
   Loch Lomond

   In the MacGregor country above Loch Lomond, a proscribed clan waits for word, keeping weapons that are illegal to own and a name that is illegal to use - and Alex goes north to tell his brothers what is coming.

4. 4
   London

   Back in London, Sir Anthony's absurd painted foppery keeps him at the heart of Hanoverian society and its loose talk about troop movements - a role Alex is ordered to hold long past the point where it becomes unbearable.