The Black Colonel

A horse kicks a stone in the dark, and the Black Colonel greets Captain Ian Gordon with a joke about women and waiting. But in a Highland pass, even a whisper can sound like a warning.

In the Scottish Highlands, where the Jacobite cause and the Hanoverian crown divide the clans, Gordon and Jock Farquharson—the rebel known as the Black Colonel—meet at night over a message bearing a woman’s name. Their loyalties make easy friendship impossible, though Farquharson’s wit and wild charm soften the edge of their quarrel. Then a low whistle rises from one end of the pass, answered from the other. A trap may be closing around the Colonel, and Gordon’s honour is suddenly in question. With danger hemming them in, can either man trust the other?

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