Ride from the Night
Carleton, Cathleen
BETRAYED BY HER TORY LOVE, WED TO A REBEL, she fights for the birth of a new land in America.  Katherine Otis arrives in New England in 1770 on the night of the Boston Massacre.  Sent by her father to live with her mother???s sister after smallpox shatters their family, Katherine is only thirteen, and thin and plain in her aunt???s eyes. But her cousin Adam Peale sees budding beauty in Katherine, and he quickly wins her heart.  Four years later, with beaus of her own, Katherine is no longer that awkward girl, but Adam has been exiled in Europe until the British blockade Boston.  He returns to an arranged marriage he will not renounce even though he declares his love for Katherine.  With war threatening, Virgina planter Sloan Sheffield comes to escort her home to her father in the Shenandoah.   Heart broken, she agrees to go.  To discover the Patriot Sloan intends to marry her to forestall scandal, and to spirit her out of  Boston.  Katherine never expects to see Adam again, to confront him with British raiders in Virginia, where she hides a wounded Sloan to save him from a Redcoat bullet.Sweet romance for young adult and adult readers.