The Devil’s Disciple

At dawn, Essie is shaken awake and scolded for sleeping while the family mourns a dead man. The next news makes the morning darker still.

New Hampshire, 1777: the Revolutionary War has turned the question of loyalty into a matter of life and death. In the Dudgeon farmhouse, Mrs. Dudgeon clings to her reputation for piety while treating Essie, the daughter of a disgraced rebel, as a burden. Her husband is dead; his brother Peter has been hanged; and her son Richard is away with smugglers and gypsies, branded a lost sinner. Then the minister arrives, as British soldiers close in on a town where virtue and rebellion may not be what they seem. When the crisis reaches Richard, will his actions match his name as the Devil’s Disciple?

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