Dearest Blood, A Romance of the Revolution

In 1775, fifteen year old Fanny Montresor, living with her stepmother Margaret in Westminster, New York, a town hostile to loyalists, is horrified to discover that her parents plan to marry her off to a stranger if war breaks out-and the local Whigs are planning a protest that could shatter the fragile peace. Fanny wrestles with her loyalty to the woman who saved her from certain death, and to her stepfather, the hated Tory Crean Brush, who whatever his faults has been a tender father to hi...