The Traitor's Wife, by Kathleen Kent, 352 pagesMartha Allen is a no-nonsense woman living in colonial Massachusetts. She suffers no fools and has not been able to find a husband for it. While assisting her cousin during the term of her pregnancy, she meets a man with a mysterious past, named Thomas, and feelings begin to blossom. But Thomas' past is sailing across the ocean with murder in mind, and Martha and Thomas' future is uncertain.
...that is, unless you read the book to which this is a prequel, The Heretic's Daughter. I had not, so I did not know how it would end. The journey to the ending, though, is the interesting part. This brought up a lot of interesting talk about Oliver Cromwell and Restoration England in our book discussion.
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