The Turncoat, Donna Thorland
The Turncoat, Donna Thorland
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The Turncoat
Renegades of the Revolution

Author: Donna Thorland

Narrator: Madeleine Lambert

Unabridged: 10 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2013

Synopsis

They are lovers on opposite sides of a brutal war, with everything at stake and no possibility of retreat. They can trust no one—especially not each other.Major Lord Peter Tremayne is the last man rebel bluestocking Kate Grey should fall in love with, but when the handsome British viscount commandeers her home, Kate throws caution to the wind and responds to his seduction. She is on the verge of surrender when a spy in her own household seizes the opportunity to steal the military dispatches Tremayne carries, ensuring his disgrace—and implicating Kate in high treason. Painfully awakened to the risks of war, Kate determines to put duty ahead of desire and offers General Washington her services as an undercover agent in the City of Brotherly Love.Months later, having narrowly escaped court martial and hanging, Tremayne returns to decadent, British-occupied Philadelphia with no stomach for his current assignment—to capture the woman he believes betrayed him. Nor does he relish the glittering entertainments being held for General Howe's idle officers. Worse, the glamorous woman in the midst of this social whirl, the fianc├®e of his own dissolute cousin, is none other than Kate Grey herself. And so begins their dangerous dance, between passion and patriotism, between certain death and the promise of a brave new future together.

About Donna Thorland

Donna Thorland graduated from Yale with a degree in classics and art history. She managed architecture and interpretation at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, for several years then earned an MFA in film production from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Thorland has been a Disney / ABC Television Writing Fellow, a WGA Writer’s Access Project honoree, and has written for the television shows Cupid and Tron: Uprising. The director of several award-winning short films, her most recent project aired on WNET Channel 13. Her fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

About Madeleine Lambert

Madeleine Lambert is an Earphones Award winning narrator who graduated with honors from Duke University with majors in theater studies and English and who received her MFA in acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep. In addition to her voiceover work, she has performed on stage in Steel Magnolias, A Christmas Carol, Anne Boleyn, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ahnika on June 06, 2013

I had high hopes for this novel--I really enjoy historical fiction and the novel mentioned many historically accurate battles and figures, but the author threw all this away by making the centered female character a hussy for a handsome british soldier and his equally attractive cousin slash half br......more

Goodreads review by Donna on June 19, 2018

"cool & sexy" –New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot "awesome" –Corey May, Assassin's Creed 3 “A stay-up-all-night, swashbuckling, breath-holding adventure of a novel…An extraordinary book about an extraordinary heroine.”—Lauren Willig, National Bestselling Author of the Pink Carnation series “Fa......more

Goodreads review by Rosina on May 12, 2015

I have a tbr pile that I worry about. First, because if it falls over it will crush one of my dogs and second, because I make so little progress. There are novels I have been trying to read for months. My lack of success has nothing to do with the novels themselves -- hiding in the stack may be the......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on July 05, 2017

Having not read an American Revolution novel in awhile I picked this one up and was pleasantly surprised with how it kept my interest. The book follows Kate Grey who was a Quaker woman but would become a successful Rebel Spy. Pinning herself among people on both sides of the war, she finds herself c......more

Goodreads review by Jane on May 02, 2013

This review originally appeared on the Historical Novel Society's website. Review copy provided by publisher. The Turncoat is a strong debut set mostly in British-occupied Philadelphia during the Revolutionary years 1777 to 1780. Kate Grey, the Quaker daughter of a farmer turned revolutionary, is dra......more

Quotes

“Fabulous…A world of spies, suspense, skullduggery, and sex.  You won’t want to stop reading.” William Martin, New York Times bestselling author

“Very entertaining.” Margaret George, New York Times bestselling author

“A stay-up-all-night, swashbuckling, breath-holding adventure of a novel…An extraordinary book about an extraordinary heroine.” Lauren Willig, national bestselling author of the Pink Carnation series

“An exhilarating, intelligent, and superbly intricate spy thriller that keeps its tension vibrating and surprises crackling until the very last page.” RT Book Reviews (4 stars)

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