Julia Brannan · 2017 · overland

Julia Brannan's fourth Jacobite Chronicles novel. Betrayed and out of time, Alex and Beth abandon London and ride north to join the rising. The book follows the campaign itself: the standard raised at Glenfinnan, Edinburgh taken, the government army broken at Prestonpans, and the long march south through Carlisle and Manchester to the council at Derby that ends it.

1. 1
   Glenfinnan

   At the head of Loch Shiel the prince's standard goes up in August 1745, and the clans come in - a rising that half the men present privately believe cannot possibly succeed, beginning anyway.

2. 2
   Edinburgh

   Alex and Beth flee London ahead of exposure and reach the army at Edinburgh, which has taken the city without a shot - the castle still held against them, and Holyrood full of a court that has not existed for a generation.

3. 3
   Prestonpans

   At Prestonpans the Highland charge breaks Cope's army in under fifteen minutes across a drained marsh at dawn - a victory so complete that it convinces the prince of things about his own army that are not true.

4. 4
   Carlisle

   The march into England begins, and Carlisle surrenders after a short siege - the first English town taken, and the point from which every mile south stretches the army further from the country that will actually fight for it.

5. 5
   Manchester

   At Manchester a couple of hundred Englishmen join, which is a fraction of what was promised - and the officers begin counting, out loud, the French landings and English risings that have not materialised.

6. 6
   Derby

   At Derby, a hundred and twenty miles from London and with the capital in a panic, the council votes to turn back against the prince's furious objection - the decision the whole rising turns on, and the end of its momentum.