Eliza is no stranger to both privilege and heartbreak. Widowed at eighteen, she gained self-sufficiency while managing one of her father’s plantations. Now, at age twenty-two, marauding Redcoats destroy her home and hard-won independence.
With her family’s properties in ruins and their financial future threatened, Eliza’s father insists she seek the stability of a new marriage. As she reluctantly navigates the romance and intrigue of Charles Town’s social season, two very different men vie for her attention.
The Season’s revelries come to an end amid the chaos and terror of siege, and when the city falls to the British, Eliza joins other rebel ladies in relief work, intelligence gathering, and sabotage.
Danger mounts as the British banish and imprison patriots to quell civil unrest. Eliza learns of a military operation that could spell disaster for General Francis Marion, commander of the only significant rebel force left in South Carolina. Can she locate the elusive Swamp Fox and deliver a message of warning in time?
Patriot of the Lowcountry is a rare novel that educates, entertains, and inspires. It gives voice to the “rebel ladies” who history often forgets, and it does so with humor, heart, and a healthy dose of righteous anger. It is without a doubt a well-researched and vividly told work of historical fiction.
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