A Legend of Montrose

Scotland, 1645. The Marquis of Montrose has raised a desperate royalist army in the Highlands to fight for King Charles I against the Covenanters, and two of his soldiers have fallen for the same woman. One is young, honorable Sir John Henderson. The other is James Stewart of Ardvoirlich, a wild and dangerous man whose loyalty is as volatile as Highland weather. When passion erupts into violence and one man lies dying in the mud, the survivor disappears into the mist, leaving questions that will echo through the mountains. Walter Scott weaves intimate betrayal against the thunder of Montrose's doomed campaign, where victories crumble and allegiances shift like fog over glens. The novel captures the brutal arithmetic of civil war, where neighbors become executioners and the only law is the sword. A Legend of Montrose is a tale of honor corrupted, love turned murderous, and the terrible price paid when loyalty and desire collide on the same bloody ground.