Jenny’s beauty attracts a lecherous duke who kidnaps her, but Rob saves her. Charles, under sentence of death, sneaks back into England to see Jenny. She is shocked to have a traitor for a father, but his charm wins her over. At school she is befriended by Evelyn the daughter of a colonial Virginia plantation owner. She does remember the North Country boy who brought her to London, Rob. Jenny grows to be a beautiful teenager and remembers little of her father. The earl is executed but Charles escapes to France after begging that his cousin raise Jenny and make a lady of her. The rebellion fails and the brothers are imprisoned. Charles and his brother join the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 to put the pretender, James Stuart, on the English throne. Ashamed of the marriage, after his daughter Jenny is born Charles is captivated by her. Through a youthful misalliance, Charles Radcliffe, brother to the Earl of Derwentwater, is forced to marry a pregnant Northumbrian lass.
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