The Turncoat's Widow

Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busystruggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the Warfor Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she's a Loyalist sympathizerwho betrayedher husband to the British-quite a tidy way to end her disastrousmarriage, the village gossips whisper. 

Everyone knows that her husband was a Patriot, a hero who died aboard a Britishprison ship moored in New York Harbor. But "everyone" is wrong. Parcell was a British spy, and GeneralWashington-who spent that winter in Morristown-can prove it. Heswears he'll safeguard Becca's farm if she unravels her husband's secrets. Witha mob ready to exile her or worse, it's an offer she can't refuse. 

Escaped British prisoner of war Daniel Alloway was the last person to see Becca'shusband alive, and Washington throws this unlikely couple together on anespionage mission to British-occupied New York City. Moving fromglittering balls to an underworld ofbrothels and prisons, Becca and Danieluncover a plot that threatens the new country's future. But will they movequickly enough to warn General Washington? And can Becca, who'slost almosteveryone she loves, fight her growing attraction to Daniel, a man who alwaysmoves on?