For Love or Country
The Scarlet Pimpernel meets The Patriot in Kerrelyn Sparks' debut novel, For Love or Country. With an army of wigs and a wardrobe that favors lavender, Quincy Stanton poses as a Loyalist fop by day. By night, he wages a secret war against the British with an impressive array of eighteenth century...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel meets The Patriot in Kerrelyn Sparks' debut novel, For Love or Country. With an army of wigs and a wardrobe that favors lavender, Quincy Stanton poses as a Loyalist fop by day. By night, he wages a secret war against the British with an impressive array of eighteenth century spy gadgets. If the truth is discovered, he could hang. Then along comes Virginia Munro, a lovely fellow patriot who's becoming entangled in her own brand of spy games... When spy falls for spy, anything can happen. Both are reluctant to admit their motives to the other... which, of course, makes dinner party conversation awkward. When two spies are stumbling upon each other in the dark, the results can be hilarious and dangerous. Is Boston big enough for the two of them? Perhaps if they combine forces...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780765340375 (0765340372)
ASIN: 0765340372
Publish date: 2002-06-17
Publisher: Forge Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Plenty of action in this story set in 1770 Boston as conflict mounts between Englishman and Americans. I rated it 3.5* because I liked the story but it wasn't as engaging as her humorous vampire series. Quincy posing as Loyalist encounters Virginia at a ball doing some snooping of her own.
This is a historical romance about a manly man forced to dress as a fop in order to spy on his enemies. It's pretty rich in history yet a lot of fun at the same time. Might this be the book to get me out of my unending slump? I so hope so.Later: I finished this up yesterday unfortunately, though it...