That morning, Claire had discovered a cache of letters hidden in the Duke of Sandringham’s study—proof that Prince Charles’s war chest was being secretly drained by his own allies. If the Jacobite rising failed before it began, thousands of lives might be spared. But the prince wouldn’t listen to a woman. And Jamie, her husband, was torn: his oath to the Scottish cause warred with his love for Claire’s vision of peace.
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In the spring of 1745, Claire Fraser found herself in a familiar yet impossible position: standing in a grand Parisian drawing room, wearing a silk gown that felt like armor, while men plotted a war she desperately wanted to prevent. The episode she was living—what some would later call “Je Suis Prest”—was not about battles, but about the moments before the blade falls. That morning, Claire had discovered a cache of