American Revolution Romance

The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell.

When a riptide washes vacationing Emeline Hastings out to sea, she thinks it's the end, only to wake up in a world she doesn't recognize or want to belong in - Boston in the year 1770. War is looming in the colonies and being the center of attention for some crazed fairy godmother isn't the best solution to anything! ... Nor is being immediately handfasted to the man staring at her strangely. William Spencer doesn't have time for a relationship. He's fighting to defend his country from the British by supplying munitions to the Colonial uprising. Now certainly isn't the time to have personal...

Young Abigail suffers greatly from the way she is being raised by her mother, for whom a woman's only place is in the kitchen. At the same time, her father's dedicated fight for freedom also ignites in her a passion for the American Revolution. When news of her father's death reaches her, she has a falling out with her mother. Soon after, Abigail goes on her way to fight for freedom and independence, like her father had done. On the way, she encounters the young English deserter Edward, who has come to the realization that he went to war for the wrong ideals.

The approaching conflict for independence on the North American seaboard, threatens the fabric of Newport society. The HMS Rose arrives as a physical reminder that the Crown’s will shall not easily be set aside. Against this clash of arms, the daughters of two leading families find their struggle for affections of Lionel Trotter as intense as the conflict that splashes ashore. Amid these twin disputes, love, lust, and power rise and fall on a shifting tide. Other works by the author in this time period include the Calder Chronicles, the HMS Comet series, and the Darroch Diaries available ...

Lilyan joins Patriot spies in British-occupied Charlestown, South Carolina, to rescue her brother from a notorious prison ship. She'll lie, steal, kill or be killed in order to protect her family. Desperate for help, she seeks out Nicholas, a scout with Francis Marion’s partisans. Together the pair set out to save her brother. But will they reach him in time? Or will her growing feelings for Nicholas compromise their mission and send the pair to the gallows?