Gathering Storm (Storm Over Scotland)

Edinburgh, Yuletide 1743, and Redcoat officer Robert Catto would rather be anywhere else on earth than Scotland. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city's Town Guard, he fears his covert mission to assess the strength of the Jacobite threat will force him to confront the past he tries so hard to forget.Christian Rankeillor, her surgeon-apothecary father and his apprentice Jamie Buchan of Balnamoon are hiding a Jacobite agent with a price on his head in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary: a hanging offence.As they pick their way through a labyrinth of intrigue, Catto and Christian Rankeillor are both increasingly drawn to each other and increasingly forced to question their own deeply-held political beliefs and convictions: and deadly danger lurks in the flickering shadows around every corner.Gathering Storm is the first in a suite of Jacobite novels by Scottish writer, historian and Jacobite expert Maggie Craig, author of the ground-breaking and acclaimed Damn Rebel Bitches: The Women of the 45.