Gev Sweeney
Obsession is another word for hope., ,Philadelphia, 1793: As yellow fever empties the city, fearful, young Janet Watters lives at the mercy of others, comforted by her secret love for Kit DeWaere, a rectorâ€™s son who believes that doing little or nothing to help people would be an abuse of Godâ€™s trust in humanity.,Kitâ€™s sometimes-rash acts of service earn him a position as vicar to a covert Episcopal mission in late Revolutionary Paris. Itâ€™s a dangerous time to be religious or American in France, which has banned Christianity and is at war with the United States. And itâ€™s a dangerous time for Janet to be reunited with Kit when her father brings her to Paris to work at the mission. Kitâ€™s sense of justiceâ€“â€“and his marriage to a mercurial French Ã©migrÃ©eâ€“â€“lead to an illusion that will change the nation and drive Janet from the boy of her dreams to the man of her heart.
Historical,Historical Fiction,Romance,Historical,European History,French Revolution,North American Hi...,American History
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