Julia Brannan Books in Order
Browse all Julia Brannan books in order, with summaries, Jacobite Chronicles background, and clear guidance on reading order and the best place to start.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
14 books
Mask Of Duplicity
by Julia Brannan
2015
After her father's death, Beth Cunningham hopes for a quiet country life, but her ambitious brother Richard returns determined to trade her dowry for advancement. Pushed into glittering Georgian society under the guidance of enigmatic Sir Anthony Peters, she must decide whom to trust when every smile hides an agenda.
The Gathering Storm
by Julia Brannan
2016
With a planned French invasion abandoned, Prince Charles Edward Stuart makes a bold decision that will change Britain and the MacGregors. In London, a bored Beth plots to rescue timid Anne Maynard, then travels north to meet Alex's clan and discovers how dangerous her new life will be.
The Mask Revealed
by Julia Brannan
2016
Beth enters marriage expecting a dull but safe life with foppish Sir Anthony Peters, finally free of her brutal brother. A shocking discovery overturns everything she thought she knew about her husband and forces her to choose between security and a far riskier, more passionate path.
A Seventy-Five Percent Solution
by Julia Brannan
2017
Sisters Joanne and Kate grow up in the wreckage of their parents' toxic marriage, carrying opposite ideas about love. When Joanne's whirlwind relationship turns suffocating and dangerous, both women must confront old wounds and decide how much of their lives they are willing to reclaim.
Pursuit of Princes
by Julia Brannan
2017
After Culloden, the Jacobite army is scattered and Prince Charles is in hiding, while the Duke of Cumberland hunts down rebels. Believing Beth dead, Alex wages a relentless guerrilla campaign, even as a new plot forms to expose the true identity of Sir Anthony Peters.
The Storm Breaks
by Julia Brannan
2017
By 1745 the long planned Jacobite rebellion has finally erupted, with Prince Charles gathering Highland clans to march south. Ordered to remain in London as a spy, Alex and Beth soon find their loyalty rewarded with betrayal, flight and the full brutality of civil war.
The Whore's Tale: Sarah
by Julia Brannan
2018
In a strict Cheshire village, Reverend Browne has already mapped out his daughter Sarah's life as his unpaid housekeeper and moral helper. A brief taste of love and freedom shatters those plans and forces her into a dangerous struggle simply to survive.
Tides of Fortune
by Julia Brannan
2018
Believing Beth still lives, Alex MacGregor leaves war scarred Scotland to keep a promise made at Culloden. Meanwhile Beth is shipped to a brutal Caribbean plantation, where one choice could secure a future for herself yet put Alex in deadly jeopardy.
The Eccentric's Tale: Harriet
by Julia Brannan
2019
Born into a powerful ducal family, Harriet Ashleigh wants one thing, freedom to be herself. When her parents' plans and looming financial ruin close in, she makes a desperate decision that scandalises society and forces her to fight for happiness and survival.
The Ladies' Tale: Caroline & Philippa
by Julia Brannan
2020
Harriet Ashleigh is now independent, living life on her own terms when a timid niece, Philippa, unexpectedly arrives at her door. At the same time, curious debutante Caroline uncovers the existence of a forbidden aunt, setting both women on risky new paths.
The Highlander's Tale: Alex
by Julia Brannan
2021
In the aftermath of a failed Jacobite rising, young Alex MacGregor is groomed to restore his outlawed clan's fortunes. Torn between grueling training and childhood loyalties, he faces brutal choices that could save his people or cost him everything.
Dealing in Treason
by Julia Brannan
2022
When a smuggler tries to blackmail him, Alex MacGregor kills the man in cold blood and then goes straight to confess to the gang's leader. Instead of vengeance he is offered a place in a high risk, highly profitable scheme that could reshape his future and his clan's.
The Baronet's Tale: Anthony Part I
by Julia Brannan
2024
In 1734 France, young Alex longs to return to his outlawed clan in Scotland and one day lead them as chief. His father instead sends him to study in Paris, where a chance encounter forces Alex to choose between private happiness and dangerous ambitions for his people.
The Baronet's Tale: Anthony Part II
by Julia Brannan
2025
Now clan chief at Loch Lomond, Alex hopes simply to serve his people well and forget his late father's grand schemes. The reality of leadership proves harsher than he imagined, and a letter from England soon forces a decision that could tear apart both his family and his clan.
Where should I start?
If you want the main Jacobite saga: Mask Of Duplicity → The Mask Revealed → The Gathering Storm → The Storm Breaks → Pursuit of Princes → Tides of Fortune.
If you enjoy rich character backstories: The Whore's Tale: Sarah → The Eccentric's Tale: Harriet → The Ladies' Tale: Caroline & Philippa → The Highlander's Tale: Alex.
If you are drawn to Alex MacGregor's journey: The Highlander's Tale: Alex → The Baronet's Tale: Anthony Part I → The Baronet's Tale: Anthony Part II → Mask Of Duplicity → Dealing in Treason.
If you prefer contemporary drama: A Seventy-Five Percent Solution.
Author bio
Julia Brannan writes historical fiction steeped in the Jacobite rebellions, following ordinary people caught up in extraordinary upheaval. Her work ranges from the sweeping Jacobite Chronicles and its companion stories to a contemporary novel, A Seventy-Five Percent Solution, about love, control and survival.
She has been a voracious reader since childhood, using books to get through a turbulent adolescence. After studying English Language and Literature at university, she tried to follow a sensible path and spent several years in the civil service, grateful at least for the steady access to more reading.
Eventually she walked away from that career and chose variety over security. Over the years she has worked in telesales, as a post office clerk and primary school teacher, in painting and gilding, and in transcription, copy editing and proofreading, all while devouring novels and daydreaming about writing her own.
At some point she realised that simply escaping into other people's stories was not enough, and decided to try building a fictional world of her own.
That decision became Mask Of Duplicity and, eventually, The Jacobite Chronicles, a six book saga that follows English gentlewoman Beth Cunningham, Highland chief Alex MacGregor and their friends through the years around the 1745 rising and its brutal aftermath.
Brannan pours a lot of research into these novels. She keeps a reference library of Jacobite sources, writes detailed blog posts on eighteenth century politics and Scottish folk tales, and uses small everyday details to make court intrigue, espionage and battlefields feel immediate rather than distant.
She has also built a web of companion tales around the main saga. The Jacobite Chronicles Story books trace the earlier lives of characters such as Sarah Browne, Harriet Ashleigh and Alex himself, while the novella Dealing in Treason drops into a dangerous episode in Alex's work with smugglers and the risks he is willing to take for his clan.
Her contemporary novel A Seventy-Five Percent Solution turns away from swords and spies to explore domestic abuse and the long echo of a destructive marriage, but the focus is still on loyalty, trauma and the complicated love between sisters. For Brannan, feelings are the real constant across centuries.
For many years she lived in rural Wales, exploring the Brecon Beacons, keeping fit and travelling when she could. In 2019 she moved north to a log cabin in rural Scotland with her cat Constantine, where long walks in the landscape she writes about now sit alongside full time novel writing and a small amount of editing work.
The rest of the time she shares historical articles, Scottish folk tales and behind the scenes notes with readers who want both a gripping story and a strong sense of how that history really felt.
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