The Jacobite's Heir
(Jacobites' Saga Book 3)
By Morag Edwards
Publication Date: 3rd September 2025
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Page Length: 336
Genre: Historical Fiction
In a world ruled by duty, faith, and inheritance, love can be the most dangerous rebellion of all.
Paris, 1730. Thirteen-year-old Henrietta Waldegrave arrives to live with her Catholic grandparents, her life shaped by secrets: a father who has renounced both his faith and his daughter, and a mother long dead. Raised among aging aristocrats, Henrietta is promised to a man twice her age in a match made for money, not affection.
What follows is a life compromised by her husband's lies, an unwanted pregnancy, and a scandalous affair. Torn between duty and desire, Henrietta defies the expectations of her class—abandoning her child in pursuit of a life on her own terms. But the price is steep: disgrace, estrangement, and lifelong regret.
Years later, her daughter Barbara is drawn into a dangerous game of her own. When she's offered a marriage that will restore her birthright—but cost her youth—Barbara must decide how much of herself she's willing to sacrifice for power, freedom, and a legacy written in other people's hands…
Spanning generations, courts, and countries, The Jacobite's Heir is a haunting tale of family, betrayal and resilience, and the impossible choices faced by women in a world that was never made for them.
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Morag Edwards
After trying many different forms of writing, in 2005 I decided that I wanted to focus on the novel and took a leave of absence from my work as an educational psychologist to complete an M.A at Manchester University’s Centre for New Writing. I have over thirty years' experience of the impact of early childhood experience upon adult relationships and use this knowledge to develop my characters' personalities, even in historical fiction. Once I know the child, I have the adult!
'The Jacobite’s Wife' is the first book in the Jacobite Saga and is a fictionalised account of the life of Winifred Herbert, later Countess of Nithsdale. As a Scottish child, I learned about her role in her husband's dramatic escape from the Tower of London but in researching Winifred's life, I found that it was her story I wanted to tell. 'The Jacobites' Plight' is the second book in the series and takes the reader to the end of Winifred's life as well as following her brother William's story, and her fascinating niece Mary Herbert, gambler and entrepreneur. The Herbert family continued to intrigue me and for my third book in the Jacobite Saga, 'The Jacobite's Heir', I found two more fascinating women who married into the Herbert family, Henrietta Waldegrave (later Beard) and her daughter Barbara Herbert, who was Mary Herbert's niece. All three novels have been published by Bloodhound Books.
'Broken' is my first domestic-suspense drama and was self-published. It tells the story of Ros, who grew up in the youth justice system and has a baby at eighteen. On the maternity ward, she meets Anna, having her fourth child. Anna projects an image of a perfect life but her husband Nick resents the constraints of family life and is deceiving her. As their lives become entangled, all three struggle with secrets and lies. When Ros's past encroaches, their lives are blown apart. My second domestic-suspense novel, 'Crash', was published by Bloodhound Books in May 2024, under the pen name Isobel Ross.
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