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What a rollercoaster of a ride rollicking through Revolutionary times. Felt like I was there...totally immersed. - John B. WardWe admire and salute great patriotism. - E. Ramos"I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."Nathan Hale - New York City - September 22, 1776In September 1776, the mighty war machine of the British Empire surrounded George Washington and his ragtag Continental Army on Manhattan Island. If the British prevail, Washington might well hang for treason. Desperate for information, he calls for an officer to venture behind enemy lines.Captain Nathan Hale, a twenty-one year old schoolmaster, is the only volunteer. Hale's idealism led him to be the first in the Connecticut colony to teach advanced classes to young women. Now, he must journey alone through British-held Long Island. General Washington's life, if not the fate of the entire American Revolution, rides on his mission.The Spy and the Seamstress weaves the true story of Nathan Hale with the fictional account of the seamstress Anne Wheaton. Once a student of Nathan's, she is a patriot of a different stripe. Her family, staunch supporters of the British Crown for generations, takes up arms to defend America from what they view as a rebel mob. Anne matures into womanhood as she travels from Boston to Brooklyn to fight for her King.For lovers of historical fiction seeking both adventure and intellectual stimulation, this book is a gem. -Emily's mom - VINE VOICE

In seventeenth-century England, loving the wrong person could put you in a hangman's noose...Noah Bancroft, banished and rejected after being caught in a compromising position, hopes for a fresh start in the new colonies, where no one knows his sins. But his bright future gets derailed when he can't keep his eyes off a handsome young native man named Jimmy Hawkey.After escaping from a cruel master, Noah finds refuge in a community of young men like himself led by the eccentric Thomas Morton. But after Captain Wollaston sells most of the indentured servants to Virginia, threatening the survival of the colony, Noah and the others force him out and establish an egalitarian society. Thomas Morton's merry and free-wheeling revels, plus the colony's fair treatment of their Native American neighbors, earn the wrath of the Plymouth Puritans. When the vindictive preacher Jonathan Cheswick witnesses Noah with Jimmy, he and the Plymouth authorities move to suppress the "evil" in their midst.Will Noah ever be free to love and find happiness with Jimmy? Or will the Puritan authorities sacrifice them on the altar of their New Jerusalem? Read Of Wild and Merry Men to find out!