Book description
Not long after he inherited the Highland estate of Kynachan, young
David Stewart was shown, in a dream, the image of his future wife.
When, at a ball in Perth, he saw the beautiful Jean Mercer - the woman
of his dream - he proposed at once, determined that she should become
his Lady of Kynachan.
The marriage was passionate and happy, and Jean learned to love the
life of the Scottish Highlands. But when Prince Charles landed in 1745
and summoned his men to follow him, David Stewart, a devoted Jacobite,
went to fight for the Cause, perishing on the field of Culloden with
all the men of Kynachan save one.
As the British government ruthlessly set out ot destroy the Highland
way of life, the Lady of Kynachan summoned all her courage, her wit
and strength, to build a new life for herself, her children, and the
people of Kynachan.
James Irvine Robertson is an author and broadcaster living in
Highland, Perthshire. He is a descendant of the Stewarts of Kynachan and
inherited a chest of family papers in which he discovered this story.
