Bringing to life the heady days of the American Revolution through the
eyes of a heroine who played a brave and dramatic part in the conflict,
this novel follows Celia Garth, a Charleston native, as she transforms
from a fashionable dressmaker to a patriot spy. When the king's army
captures Charleston and sweeps through the Carolina countryside in a
wave of blood, fire, and debauchery, the rebel cause seems all but lost.
But when Francis Marion, a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army
known as The Swamp Fox, recruits Celia as a spy, the tides of war begin
to shift. This classic historical novel captures the fervor of
18th-century Charleston, the American Revolution, and a woman who risked
her life for the patriot cause.