num_pages: 414
description: Some houses seem to want to hold their secrets.Its 1759 and the world is at war pulling the North American colonies of Britain and France into the conflict. The times are complicated as are the loyalties of many New York merchants who have secretly been trading with the French for years defying Britains colonial laws in a game growing ever more treacherous.When captured French officers are brought to Long Island to be billeted in private homes on their parole of honour it upends the lives of the Wilde familydeeply involved in the treasonous trade and already divided by war.Lydia Wilde struggling to keep the peace in her fracturing family following her mothers death has little time or kindness to spare for her unwanted guests. French-Canadian lieutenant Jean-Philippe de Sabran has little desire to be there. But by the wars end theyll both learn love honour and duty can form tangled bonds that are not broken easily.Their doomed romance becomes a local legend told and re-told through the years until the present day when conflict of a different kind brings Charley Van Hoek to Long Island to be the new curator of the Wilde House Museum.Charley doesnt believe in ghosts. But as she starts to delve into the history of Lydia and her French officer it becomes clear that the Wilde House holds more than just secrets and Charley discovers the legend might not have been telling the whole story...or the whole truth.
language: English
title: Bellewether
publisher: Simon & Schuster Canada