The Turncoat's Widow - Becker, Mally
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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 she's 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 he'll…mehr

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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 she's 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 he'll safeguard Becca's farm if she unravels her husband's secrets. With¿a 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's¿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 country's future. But will they move¿quickly enough to warn General Washington? And can Becca, who's¿lost almost¿everyone she loves, fight her growing attraction to Daniel, a man who always¿moves on?
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Mally Becker is the twice Agatha Award nominated author of¿The Turncoat's Widow¿and¿The Counterfeit Wife, books one and two in her Revolutionary War mystery series.¿She teaches mystery writing at The Writers Circle Workshops, interviews authors for the Historical Novel Society's website, co-hosts Guns, Knives & Lipstick, a crime fiction Podcast, and is a member of Sisters in Crime and the Mystery Writers of America. Mally was an attorney and a volunteer advocate for children in foster care until becoming a full-time writer. She and her husband live in New Jersey, not too far from Morristown where her first book is set.¿