Besieged for two months by a rabble in arms, the British decided to break out of town. American spies discovered their plans, and on the night of June 16, 1775, a thousand rebels marched out onto Charlestown peninsula and began digging a redoubt (not on Bunker Hill, which they had been ordered to fortify, but on Breeds Hill, well within cannon shot of the British batteries and ships). At daybreak, HMS Lively began firing. It was the opening round of a battle that saw unbelievable heroism and tragic blunders on both sides (a battle that marked a point of no return for England and her colonies), the beginning of all-out war.

    Through his help and her own daring, she escapes to America, determined to find the security she is looking for in the household of Edmund Winter, a wealthy Tory merchant.But time and events move too quickly for her. Caught up in the bitter strife between Tory and rebel, she struggles to find her place in a world of turbulent ideas and actions where the familiar patterns are broken and her own values must change. Based on actual incidents in Revolutionary history in Falmouth, Maine, Katharine Leslie is a gripping and moving tale, highlighted by sensitive black and white illustrations by Polly Bolian.

    As a Colonial, ignorant of the secret Jacobite movement to dethrone King George II, Richard was puzzled by the guarded political conversations at the tavern. Then one night, while serving a gathering of aristocratic men clad in silks and satins, he overhears a dark plot, coded with mysterious names and allusions - and witnesses the cold-blooked murder of the one dissenting voice.The story moves on, as swiftly and as deftly as the spies and counter-spies who hunt Richard down, involving him deeper and deeper in their dangerous and separate causes. Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth and David Garrick come alive in flesh and blook terms as Richard moves in and out of the intrigues of the famous Elibank Plot of 1752.Re-created in full costume, are the lords and ladies, the street urchins, the men of art and letters, who peopled the flowering of the Age of Reason. With cloak-and-dagger overtones, a history adventure that is vivid, authentic, and hard to put down.

    Along with her new friend Nicky, she is faced with a mystery and helps play an important role in solving it.