Tremayne is disgraced and he also is being watched. Spy steals military dispatches from Tremayne causing Kate in the position of

Surrender, but when she finds out that a spy exists in her household and this Kate is caught up between so many lies, she wants to Kate should not be falling in love with Peter, but love is love, and she There is no one to trust, especially each other. Sides the American Revolutionary war, and everything is at stake and no way to Major Peter Tremayne, Lord Sancreed and Kate Grey are are lovers on opposite These elements suit the background of intrigue and add up to a satisfying read.TURNCOAT by Fresh Fiction reviewer Joanne Bozik

Yet the complexity added by these jarring notes makes the novel more interesting to me, as do the interesting cast of characters and the author’s refusal to follow the conventional path of what could have been a straightforward romance. In addition, it is disconcerting that bad boy Caide is in some ways every bit as attractive to the reader – and to Kate – as the hero, Tremayne.

On the minus side, there is a disconnect between Kate’s origins as a Quaker woman and her sudden transformation into a glamorous demi-mondaine, and I find it hard to believe she could lose her morals overnight. The Turncoat provides a strong historical background for readers, with plenty of action in the field of battle to balance out the society and bedroom scenes. The parallel between two closely related nations fighting over a land and two men with an intricately twisted family tree at odds over a woman is worth considering. The American Revolution provides the novelist with plenty of scope for intrigue and action, and I think Thorland has made a good effort at doing the period justice. Tremayne does not betray Kate, but his loyalties are stretched farther when Kate turns up in Philadelphia under an assumed name and engaged to Tremayne’s rake of a cousin, Bayard Caide. Kate Grey, the Quaker daughter of a farmer turned revolutionary, is drawn into the world of espionage by a glamorous Rebel spy known as the Widow, but not before she has inadvertently given away her father’s secret to British officer Peter Tremayne. The Turncoat is a strong debut set mostly in British-occupied Philadelphia during the Revolutionary years 1777 to 1780.

The Turncoat by Donna Thorland