A Desperate Fortune

✍ Scribed by Kearsley, Susanna

• Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 320 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781492602026

✦ Synopsis

For nearly 300 years,
the mysterious journal of Jacobite exile Mary Dundas has lain unread
its secrets safe from prying eyes. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas
has been hired by a once-famous historian to crack the journal's cipher.
But when she arrives in Paris, Sara finds herself besieged by
complications from all sides: the journal's reclusive owner, her
charming Parisian neighbor, and Mary, whose journal doesn't hold the
secrets Sara expects.

It turns out that Mary Dundas wasnt
keeping a record of everyday life, but a first-hand account of her part
in a dangerous intrigue. In the first wintry months of 1732, with a
scandal gaining steam in London, driving many into bankruptcy and ruin,
the man accused of being at its center is concealed among the Jacobites
in Paris, with Mary posing as his sister to aid his disguise.

When
their location is betrayed, theyre forced to put a desperate plan in
action, heading south along the road to Rome, protected by the enigmatic
Highlander Hugh MacPherson.

As Mary's tale grows more and more
dire, Sara, too, must carefully choose which turning to take... to find
the road that will lead her safely home.