This month's read is Bellewether by Susann a Kearsley. Copies are available at the Main Library or call to request pi ck-up at the Eastgate Branch. \;
\nIt&rsquo\;s 1759 and the worl d is at war\, pulling the North American colonies of Britain and France in to the conflict. The times are complicated\, as are the loyalties of many New York merchants who have secretly been trading with the French for year s\, defying Britain&rsquo\;s colonial laws in a game growing ever more tre acherous.
\nWhen 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&mdash\;deeply involved in the treasonous trade and already divided by war.
\nLydia Wilde\, struggling to keep the p eace in her fracturing family following her mother&rsquo\;s death\, has li ttle time or kindness to spare for her unwanted guests. French-Canadian li eutenant Jean-Philippe de Sabran has little desire to be there. But by the war&rsquo\;s end they&rsquo\;ll both learn love\, honour\, and duty can f orm tangled bonds that are not broken easily.
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