Author(s): Diana Gabaldon

Historical Fiction

Against the vivid and violent backdrop of war-torn Europe, Lord John Grey pursues a deadly family secret and a clandestine love affair ...Seventeen years earlier, Grey's father, the Duke of Pardloe, shot himself just days before he was to be accused of being a Jacobite traitor. By raising a regiment to fight at Culloden, Grey's elder brother has succeeded in redeeming the family name, aided by Grey, now a Major in that regiment. But now, on the eve of the regiment's move to Germany, a mysterious threat surfaces, a threat that opens unwelcome questions about the matter of the Duke's death, and brings the Grey brothers into fresh conflict with the past and each other. First published 2007.