Seventeen years earlier{608} Lord John Grey s father shot himself{608} days before he was to be accused of being a Jacobite traitor. By raising a regiment to fight at Culloden{608} Grey s elder brother has succeeded in redeeming the family name{608} aided by Grey{608} now a major in that regiment. But now{608} on the eve of the regiment s move to Germany{608} comes a mysterious threat that throws the matter of the Duke s death into stark new question{608} and brings the Grey brothers into fresh conflict with the past and each other. From barracks and parade grounds to the battlefields of Prussia and the stony fells of the Lake District{608} Lord John s struggle to find the truth leads him through danger and passion{608} ever deeper{608} toward the answer to the question at the center of his soul what is it that is most important to a man? Love{608} loyalty{608} family name? Selfrespect{608} or honesty? And when Grey finds his truth{608} he must face a final choice between honor and life itself.