The Jacobite Chronicles Books in Order
Part ofJulia Brannan Books in OrderSee The Jacobite Chronicles by Julia Brannan listed in reading order, with short summaries, series background, and advice on the best starting point for this Jacobite rebellion saga.
Last updated: January 13, 2026
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Publication Order
7 books
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Series background & context
The Jacobite Chronicles follows Beth Cunningham, her ruthless brother Richard, Highland chief Alex MacGregor and their friends through the years leading up to and following the 1745 Jacobite rising. It is a blend of historical adventure, romance and family saga set across England, Scotland and France.
The story begins in 1743 on Beth's quiet English estate, where the death of her father brings Richard home from the army. Furious at his modest inheritance and hungry for promotion, he decides to use Beth's dowry to advance his career, no matter what it costs her.
Forced back into contact with noble cousins and thrust into Georgian high society, Beth is expected to marry quickly and advantageously. With the help of witty socialite Sir Anthony Peters she navigates salons, assemblies and suitors, only to discover that almost everyone is hiding something and masks are everywhere.
As the series continues, Beth's uneasy marriage, Anthony's secrets and Alex's loyalties pull them into the heart of Jacobite plotting, where espionage, faith and personal honour collide.
Later books carry Beth and Alex through the 1745 campaign itself, from Prince Charles Edward Stuart's early victories to defeat, reprisals and exile. Battles, brutal justice and the politics of empire sit alongside the more intimate costs of war, from grief and trauma to the strain on marriages and friendships.
Throughout, Brannan keeps the focus on character. Readers see lavish London drawing rooms, the French court and the harsh Highland landscape through Beth and Alex's eyes, making the series a good choice if you want romance and intrigue woven tightly into carefully researched eighteenth century history.
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