Diana Gabaldon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga, brings back again one of her most compelling individuals: Lord John Grey. Here Gabaldon weaves jointly the strands of Lord John’s top secret and general public lives-a shattering family members mystery, a love affair with potentially disastrous implications, and a war that stretches from your Old World to the New. It’s been seventeen years since Lord John’s father, the Duke of Pardloe, was discovered lifeless, a pistol in his hand and accusations of about Lord John as well as the Brotherhood of the Knife his role being a Jacobite agent staining forever a family’s honor. Now unlaid spirits from the past are stirring. Lord John’s brother offers mysteriously received a page of their later father’s lacking diary-and John is certainly convinced that someone is taunting the Gray family with secrets from your grave. So he turns to the only man he can trust: the Scottish Jacobite Wayne Fraser. But battle, a forbidden affair, and Fraser’s personal secrets will complicate Lord John’s quest-until Adam Fraser yields the missing piece of an astounding puzzle and Lord John must determine whether his family’s honor will probably be worth his life.