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 Pretenderâs Lady, Alan Goldâs meticulously researched novel, accurately opens historyâs pages on a peerless woman who helped change the course of history and whose legend lives on in Scotland todayâFlora MacDonald.
She was the most famous Scotswoman of her day, single handedly saving Bonnie Prince Charlie. This is her fictionalized life storyâher relations with the Prince, her flight to America, Ben Franklinâs influence, and her return to Britain to lobby for peace
But whatâs hidden from history, revealed now for the first time in Goldâs dazzling new work of fiction, is the result of Floraâs and Charlieâs love: a beautiful and talented boy raised on an American farm. But only she knows his true heritage and his claim to the worldâs greatest throne. And only the genius of Ben Franklin understands how to use this naĂŻve boy to change the history of America.
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