<DIV><B>A captivating historical novel from the national bestselling author, as Ariana Franklin, of <I>Mistress of the Art of Death</I>.</B><BR><BR> Makepeace Burke serves Patriots at her late father's tavern on the Boston waterfront in 1765 and hates the redcoats with a vengeance. But even she can't watch an angry mob drown an Englishman. She rescues him and nurses him back to health-and falls in love.<BR><BR> In Patriot Boston, hers is an unforgivable sin-made worse by the fact that her Englishman turns out be the aristocratic Sir Philip Dapifer. Philip must smuggle Makepeace aboard a ship bound for London and save her life at the expense of the world she knows.<BR><BR> Rich in period detail, bringing the years of colonial rebellion to vivid life, <I>A Catch of Consequence</I> is a stylish novel of Boston and England, and of a woman who defies convention in both worlds.<BR><BR></DIV>