Jamie is content to stay away from the Lowlands and serve with Alexander. Jamie, who has always believed that the Duke of Albany plotted the murder of his chief, the Earl of Douglas, also believes that David Stewart was starved to death at Albany’s order. His young son James, heir to the throne, has been captured by the English on his way to France, where his father sent him for safety after the death of his older son, David, at the time in Robert of Albany’s custody. Although King Robert III is still alive, he has handed over the government to his brother Robert of Albany. Jamie is living with his family on the estate of Alexander Stewart of Badenoch, acting Justicaire of the Highlands. That no Scot who fought in the battle would so call him is no concern to Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany and the Governor of Scotland. At the beginning of this novel, the third in Tranter’s Stewart Trilogy, Jamie Douglas has fled to the highlands after being declared an outlaw following the disastrous battle of Homildon.
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