Though divided by centuries, two women -- a Jacobite exile and an amateur codebreaker -- are united in a quest to discover the limits of trust and the unlikely coincidences of fate.

This daring tale of revenge and exotic intrigue is demonstrative of Stevenson's broad range and unique genius. "The Master of Ballantrae", first published in 1889, follows the conflict between two Scottish brothers of noble origins during the tumultuous Jacobite Risings of 1745. Greed and envy threaten to tear the brothers apart as a race for the family inheritance intensifies. James Durie, the protagonist and Master of Ballantrae, is as charming...

"The first in a daring new Scottish historical series about a woman determined to return Scottish treasures to the Highlands and the only man who can help her--the lover she once abandoned."--Page 4 of cover.

A breathtaking novel of passion and betrayal in seventeenth-century Scotland and the portrait of an unforgettable heroine February 13, 1692. Thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan are killed by soldiers who had previously enjoyed the clan's hospitality. Many more die from exposure. Forty miles south, brilliant, captivating Corrag-accused witch and orphaned herbalist-is imprisoned in the Scottish highlands for her involvement in the massacre. As...

The Jacobites were the supporters of the House of Stuart between 1688 and 1746. Information on the ordinary Jacobites is generally difficult to find. This volume provides a partial list of Jacobites of 1715 and is based on manuscript or printed primary sources. -- Adapted from introduction.

"In 1750s New York, the three MacKinnon brothers, Jacobites sworn to free Scotland from British rule, have settled in exile, Ian MacKinnon and his two brothers, powerful Highland warriors trained in native American warfare, are falsely accused of murder and forced to take up the banner of their enemy King George in the French and Indian war. While on patrol, Ian recuses a Scots woman, who calls herself Annie Burns, from the French and Abenaki soldiers...

In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.