As General Lord Cornwallis watched his victorious British grenadiers march snappily into Philadelphia, he breathed a sigh of relief. It had been a tough campaign to seize control of America’s largest city, the city where only a few months before, the rabble had dared declare the colonies independent of Great Britain. But now victory was in sight for the King’s troops. In scattering the Americans over the countryside, Cornwallis thought he had solved the problem of Philadelphia. But there was one problem waiting for him in Philadelphia that he had not reckoned on—Rebecca Ransome.

As in her earlier Red Coat in Boston, Finlayson has created striking characters in a historically accurate setting to bring this fast-paced, suspenseful tale of the American Revolution to vivid life.