In a Scotland wracked by the last throes of the Jacobite rebellion, a
tragic tale of ambition, politics, betrayals and love unfolds. Book
one of two. Scotland, 1743. In Blackwater Castle, in the Highlands,
the Duke of Plaxton is looking for a new portrait painter. A member
of Clan Grant, supporters of the Act of Union with England, the duke
has a son, William, whose heart leans towards the Jacobite cause, and
a daughter, Amelia, betrothed to an English lord she has ...