Bringing to life the heady days of the American Revolution through the eyes of a heroine who played a brave and dramatic part in the conflict, this novel follows Celia Garth, a Charleston native, as she transforms from a fashionable dressmaker to a patriot spy. When the king's army captures Charleston and sweeps through the Carolina countryside in a wave of blood, fire, and debauchery, the rebel cause seems all but lost. But when Francis Marion, a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army known as "The Swamp Fox," recruits Celia as a spy, the tides of war begin to shift. This classic historical novel captures the fervor of 18th-century Charleston, the American Revolution, and a woman who risked her life for the patriot cause.
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"Historical romance with all the thrills . . . it also gives a vivid sense of the historical personages and events of the time. . . . Gwen Bristow is a skillful story-teller." -- New York Herald Tribune Book Review
"If ever a book had 'best seller' corpuscles in its blood this is it. . . . It is an exciting tale of love and war. . . . The novel is in the tradition of Gone with the Wind--filled with throbbing details of each day's terrors, thrills, threats and, when they came, triumphs. . . . The kind of story that keeps readers tingling." --Fanny Butcher, Chicago Tribune
"Rebel blue, Tory green, and King George's hated red flash brightly through this embattled tale of Gwen Bristow's native South Carolina . . . Miss Bristow uses thrills, surprise, and melodrama to personalize the Revolution and impart a tingling sense of shared experience in this book . . . the author of This Side of Glory and Jubilee Trail is once again at the top of her form." -- The New York Times
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Gwen Bristow was the author of Calico Palace, Golden Dreams, Jubilee Trail, This Side of Glory, and Tomorrow Is Forever. Sara Donati is the author of Dawn on a Distant Shore, Fire Along the Sky, Into the Wilderness, Lake in the Clouds, and Queen of Swords.
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