Being the account of Angelica Tenbroeck’s flight from New York City during the late War of Independence, her would-be lovers, her misfortunes and adventures upon that journey — and a crazy quilt.
Angelica is a Patriot heiress, stalked by a brutal, fortune-hunting British officer. Forced to trust Jack, the mystery man who pledges to take her on a dangerous war-time journey up river to her Albany home, she expects to encounter brigands, Tories and Indians. What she doesn’t expect is to lose her heart along the way.