It's 1758 & Europe is in turmoil
- the Seven Years War is taking hold & London is ripe with deceit. The enigmatic Lord John Grey a nobleman & high-ranking officer in His Majesty's Army pursues a clandestine love affair & 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 the 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 victims to the wails of Newgate prison
- & to the gallows. From barracks & parade-grounds to the bloody battlefields of Prussia Grey faces danger & forbidden 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. Eighteenth-century Europe is brought startlingly to life in this compelling adventure mystery.