{"product_id":"bellewetherbooks","title":"Bellewether","description":"From the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eA Desperate Fortune \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Firebird\u003c\/i\u003e, comes an entrancing new novel of love, war, and historical intrigue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome houses seem to want to hold their secrets.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt’s 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 Britain’s colonial laws in a game growing ever more treacherous.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 family—deeply involved in the treasonous trade and already divided by war.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLydia Wilde, struggling to keep the peace in her fracturing family following her mother’s death, has little time or kindness to spare for her unwanted guests. And Canadian lieutenant Jean-Philippe de Sabran has little desire to be there. But by the war’s end they’ll both learn love, honour, and duty can form tangled bonds that are not broken easily.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTheir 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCharley doesn’t 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.","brand":"Kearsley, Susanna","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47865406423264,"sku":null,"price":13.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_42ed27a3-366b-4cf8-a1ea-92826536598b.jpg?v=1760211382","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/bellewetherbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}