White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five

In the autumn of 1745, a young Highlander chops wood in a remote glen, unaware that his axe will draw him into a desperate game of survival and allegiance. When Andrew Boyd's falling tree crushes a mysterious stranger hiding in the undergrowth, he discovers his wounded guest is Lord Geoffry Armitage, a fugitive Jacobite nobleman hunted by Hanoverian soldiers across the Scottish Highlands. What begins as an act of accidental violence becomes an alliance forged in shared danger, as both men unite behind the lost cause of the exiled Prince Charles Stuart. Prime-Stevenson builds tension through mounting threats, a Colonel Danforth combing the neighborhood for Jacobites, narrow escapes, and the constant knowledge that discovery means imprisonment or death. The novel breathes life into a doomed rebellion, capturing the romance of a lost cause and the intense bond between two men who risk everything for loyalty to each other and to a fallen dynasty.