Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War for Independence.
But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that shes a Loyalist sympathizer who betrayed her husband to the British-quite a tidy way to end her disastrous marriage, the village gossips whisper.
Everyone knows that her husband was a Patriot, a hero who died aboard a British prison ship moored in New York Harbor.
But everyone is wrong.
Parcell was a British spy, and General Washington-who spent that winter in Morristown-can prove it.
He swears hell safeguard Beccas farm if she unravels her husbands secrets.
With a mob ready to exile her or worse, its an offer she cant refuse.
Escaped British prisoner of war Daniel Alloway was the last person to see Beccas husband alive, and Washington throws this unlikely couple together on an espionage mission to British-occupied New York City.
Moving from glittering balls to an underworld of brothels and prisons, Becca and Daniel uncover a plot that threatens the new countrys future.
But will they move quickly enough to warn General Washington? And can Becca, whos lost almost everyone she loves, fight her growing attraction to Daniel, a man who always moves on?.
Valerie Baadh Garrett
183.86 Lei
