Lord John and the brotherhood of the blade : Lord John Grey ; bk. 2
(Book)

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 familyś history. Seventeen years earlier, Lord Johnś 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 familyś honor. Now unlaid ghosts from the past are stirring. Lord Johnś brother has mysteriously received a page of their late fatherś 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 Fraserś own secrets will complicate Lord Johnś 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 familyś honor is worth his life.