Gathering Storm

Storm over Scotland, Book 1

Jacobite intrigue and romance in 18th-century Edinburgh: history, mystery, and love across the political divide.

Edinburgh, Yuletide 1743, and Redcoat Captain Robert Catto would rather be anywhere else on earth than Scotland. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to command 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 committed supporters of the Stuart Cause. They're hiding a Jacobite agent with a price on his head in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary: a hanging offense.

Meeting as enemies, Robert and Kirsty are thrown together as allies by their desire to help Geordie and Alice Smart, young runaways from Cosmo Liddell, bored and brutal aristocrat and coal owner.

Gathering Storm brings to life a time when Scotland stood at a crossroads in her history, and is the first in a suite of Jacobite novels by Scottish writer and historian Maggie Craig, author of the ground-breaking and acclaimed Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45 and Bare-Arsed Banditti: The Men of the 45.

The Storm over Scotland series are stand-alones, but follow the story of Christian Rankeillor and Robert Catto as their two very different worlds collide.

©2013, 2015, 2020 Maggie Craig Totterdell (P)2020 Maggie Craig Totterdell

Fantastic story and great narration

I loved the well researched history. The characters were well developed. The only other review in this audible format was completely wrong and undeserving. The narration was simply devine. My only criticism is that it’s a cliffhanger and I really don’t appreciate that type of book. I find them to be manipulative. But definitely worth it!!

nothing

not descriptive enough. far too much left to imagination. I know she wore big hoop chapter one and he had a Chinese robe. oh, and he had Grey eyes.