About this story
A sudden shower and a squad of soldiers put you beside Catriona Drummond, watching her father James More marched off under guard. Introductions turn into alliance: her father cares only that you have money now, and Lord Prestongrange wants it delivered to him alone, tonight, before anyone else can shape it.
How it opens
On August twenty-fifth, 1751, you left the British Linen Company a landed laird.
A bank porter carried your bag of gold through an Edinburgh black with high houses.
Bank PorterPlain clothes suit new fortune better than a coat that asks questions.
Choose
Take me to Appin's agent before the authorities see me.
I should call on Lord Prestongrange openly.
First I need clothes that do not advertise a fugitive.