Trial of Honor — Edward Grant Ries

Jamie could not sleep, knowing that not only was this night his last in Newgate, but also the last for his friend John Boswell before he met his fate on Tyburn Hill. A full moon rose in the night sky, flooding the pavements with a lambent glow and casting huge shadows on the prison walls and huddled prisoners, who spoke in subdued voices far into the night. Jamie was startled by the sudden tolling of the tenor bell of St. Sepulchre?s church. Trial of Honor continues the adventures of Jamie Drummond, as the young Scottish student of Kings College, Aberdeen and son of the attainted Viscount Strathallan, is unknowingly drawn into his father?s Jacobite intrigue. Reluctantly agreeing to courier letters for his father, Jamie endures betrayal, pursuit, capture, and confinement in Newgate, England?s most notorious gaol. Faced with a lengthy prison sentence or worse, he accepts impressment into military service in Britain?s Royal Marines on the eve of the Seven Years War. Only honor, courage, and unwavering faith in an old prophecy about his destiny sustain him through harrowing battles with the French, Barbary pirates, storms, and shipwreck. Trial of Honor serves up a generous feast of mid-eighteenth century British history and culture while intriguing readers through Jamie?s trials and tribulations.