Publisher's Synopsis
August 1778. Edward Savill, a London government clerk, is assigned to New York to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists from the wrong side of the American War of Independence. Savill lodges with the respected Wintour family and their enigmatic daughter-in-law Arabella, who are praying for the safe return of their son and her husband, Jack - currently missing behind rebel lines. The discovery of a body in the notorious Canvas Town slums thrusts Savill into a murder inquiry. In the escalating violence of a desperate city, the secret this killing hides could be the key to power for whoever uncovers it...
