From the author of The Last Testament comes the true love of Bonnie Prince Charlie, her adventures in America and her lasting legacy.
In the page-turning popular genre trail-blazed by Antonia Fraser and Phillippa Gregory, The Pretenderās Lady, Alan Goldās meticulously researched novel, accurately opens historyās pages on a peerless woman who helped change the course of history and whose legend lives on in Scotland todayāFlora MacDonald.
She was the most famous Scotswoman of her day, single handedly saving Bonnie Prince Charlie. This is her fictionalized life storyāher relations with the Prince, her flight to America, Ben Franklinās influence, and her return to Britain to lobby for peace
But whatās hidden from history, revealed now for the first time in Goldās dazzling new work of fiction, is the result of Floraās and Charlieās love: a beautiful and talented boy raised on an American farm. But only she knows his true heritage and his claim to the worldās greatest throne. And only the genius of Ben Franklin understands how to use this naĆÆve boy to change the history of America.
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