"I love you madly, my woman, my rebel, my wife." Martha Gracey, the daughter of a successful Boston proprietor, has the world at her feet. Curious and headstrong, she's not afraid to pursue what she wants: the courtship of dashing Robert Henshaw, a Loyalist mercantile heir with a dark secret. With her attachment to Robert secure, she's thrown headlong into a dazzling world of high society happenings--where she is distinctly out of place. While struggling to navigate her rapidly changing world, Martha crosses paths with Robert's cousin, Asahel Wyeth, a lucrative rebel tradesman. He's older, wiser, and has returned to Boston with an air of retribution. Martha quickly finds herself drawn to him; he's handsome, impervious, and sees right through the walls she's built for Robert Henshaw. With her growing attraction to Asahel, and the uncovering of Robert's devious past, Martha's attachment to Robert cools-but by then, it's too late. Robert, the jilted lover, retaliates with a vengeance so great, it changes the course of Martha's existence. Through trials and mishaps, heartache and growth, she must contend with the consequences of her love and her mistakes, and learn from them-before she loses the man she's given her heart to.
