Williamsburg: Virginia On The Eve Of Revolution

Visitors to Colonial Williamsburg will recognize the settings of this fictional history-the Capitol, Governor's Palace, Courthouse, and Raleigh Tavern. Also familiar are the historical characters, Washington, Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and Patrick Henry. At the forefront of the drama are two fictional characters, Kathryn Sheridan, a "prodigiously handsome widow," who arrives in Williamsburg with a secret mission, to spy on the colony's governor. She meets James Leslie, a Boston merchant and militia captain allied with the incendiary Massachusetts Sons of Liberty. He is in Williamsburg to encourage opposition to the Crown. Sheridan and Leslie are drawn to each other, but are repelled by their political differences. She is a staunch loyalist; he is a rebel. Their love-hate relationship is carried, in this blend of history and fiction, through the tumultuous years just before the War for Independence, as Virginians lead the colony to its fateful clash with Britain.