In her much-anticipated new novel, the New York Times
bestselling author of the Outlander saga brings back one of
her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey—soldier,
gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Here Diana
Gabaldon brilliantly weaves together the strands of Lord
John’s secret and public lives—a shattering family mystery,
a love affair with potentially disastrous consequences, and
a war that stretches from the Old World to the New. . .
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In 1758, in the heart of the Seven Years’ War,
Britain fights by the side of Prussia in the Rhineland. For
Lord John and his titled brother Hal, the battlefield will
be a welcome respite from the torturous mystery that burns
poisonously in their family’s history. Seventeen years
earlier, Lord John’s late father, the Duke of Pardloe, was
found dead, a pistol in his hand and accusations of his role
as a Jacobite agent staining forever a family’s honor.
Now unlaid ghosts from the past are stirring. Lord
John’s brother has mysteriously received a page of their
late father’s missing diary. Someone is taunting the Grey
family with secrets from the grave, but Hal, with secrets of
his own, refuses to pursue the matter and orders his brother
to do likewise. Frustrated, John turns to a man who has been
both his prisoner and his confessor: the Scottish Jacobite
James Fraser.
Fraser can tell many secrets—and
withhold many others. But war, a forbidden affair, and
Fraser’s own secrets will complicate Lord John’s quest.
Until James Fraser yields the missing piece of an astounding
puzzle—and Lord John, caught between his courage and his
conscience, must decide whether his family’s honor is worth
his life.