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NEW: BOOK THREE
A murder. A false accusation. A deadly truth.
When a dashing coffeehouse proprietor is murdered, Sarah Barrett dives into the mystery and becomes entangled in a scandal that rocked Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
Twenty Quaker pacifists were rounded up, jailed, and banished to the wilds of Virginia for eight months. Their crime? Refusing to back the war for independence.
Were the pious men secretly funneling military secrets to the British? The Spanktown Papers are the key. But even these curious papers are steeped in mystery.
Sarah, a fearless journalist in a man’s world, tangles with spies and lies to solve both mysteries, while finding love during dark and dangerous times.
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“The novel plunges the reader into a series of perilous adventures, at the same time opening our eyes to a little-known war crime that still haunts our history.”
— Ellen Pall, Author Essex, New Hampshire, April 1775.
Fifteen-year-old Sarah Barrett hates the mess of childbirth, yet she’s the unwilling apprentice to the town’s only midwife—her mother. She longs to be a writer like her father, who publishes the weekly Essex Journal.
As the American Revolution heats up, his pro-British views turn the town against the family. Troubles deepen when a smallpox epidemic hits the town, and her mother pushes a crude, controversial vaccination.
Sarah finds herself questioning everything: the fight for independence, her father’s judgment, her own failings, and more to the point, why it’s considered unthinkable for a young woman to write for a newspaper.
When she learns the redcoats and the patriots will soon clash over a stockpile of munitions in Essex, she comes up with a risky plan to thwart the bloodbath.
BOOK ONE: OUTCASTS OF ESSEX