Sean Gunn has everything he never expected. A merchant’s life in Boston. A woman he loves. A future that is finally real.
Now his Jacobite handlers want him to throw it all away.
King George III is coming to the colonies, and he is not coming as a tyrant. He is bringing reforms that could reshape the empire. Genuine concessions. The kind of change that makes revolution unnecessary.
Gunn’s orders are simple: one bullet, one king, vengeance for Culloden and every exile who bled for the Stuart cause.
But the King’s security chief is hunting threats with alien technology Gunn cannot match. Susanne, the woman who left espionage behind to build a life with him, is begging him to walk away. And the mission his father died for now means killing a king who might be the colonies’ best hope.
Pull the trigger, he loses everything he loves. Walk away, he betrays everyone who sacrificed.
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