Miranda Jarrett

ProloguePortsmouth, England May 1787With growing panic, Caroline Harris stared at her reflection in the mirror as her mother's maid tied the sash at her waist. Soon it would be time to leave the ladies' retiring room and join the gentlemen in the salon, and then it would be too late.Why, why was...

Prologue Tryon County, New York November, 1778 H e didn't want to die alone. Not like this, not hidden beneath the shadows of the tallest trees, unmoumed, unburied save for the drifting snow that would cover his body only until the wolves found him. Or the Senecas. Better the wolves. Jamie...

Prologue St-Pierre, Martinique 1754 ^^Look at them, Michel!" whispered Antoinette G6ri-cault urgentiy. "Look at them and remember all they have stolen from you!" Her fingers clenched the boy's shoulders tightly, her nails sharp through the worn linen of his shirt. But Michel did not flinch. He...