In lord John Grey is posted to jamaica to assist the governor as he faces a most unusual kind of uprising among The Colony's slave population. In Jamie Fraser's step-daughter joan is on her way to an abbey in Paris to be...In lord John Grey is posted to jamaica to assist the governor as he faces a most unusual kind of uprising among The Colony's slave population. In Jamie Fraser's step-daughter joan is on her way to an abbey in Paris to become a nun - but when she meets the comte st germain, a wealthy French aristocrat rumoured to to deal in the occult - she discovers her destiny lies on a quite different path.