-Wonderfully detailed and keenly researched, it is a moving portrait of a courageous woman caught between a disastrous affair with a charismatic revolutionary and the draconian laws of the land that would put her to death because of it.---Kathleen Kent
-Dangerous Liaisons: A seventeenth-century heroine for our times . . . A] delightfully seditious heroine...Proof that a historical novel can be educational and entertaining, and nothing like homework.---O, The Oprah Magazine

London, 1649: King Charles has been beheaded for treason, Cromwell is in power, the Levelers are...