![]() ![]() And then things come to a head - with a new law passed that would extradite the immigrants from the Kingdom living now in the Republic - back home. Raike is hiding more than what she is letting on. Raike, Elizabeth egged on by Julia, decides to attend a volunteer march and the warning bells don't stop - as she suspects that Mrs. ![]() The second book opens with her witnessing the hanging of Alice Carter, the false duchess and then her protege Julia Swain - wanting to escape domesticity and marriage - signing up to volunteer for a new charitable organization in town. However the events of the first book forces her into days of seclusion, leading a quiet life on Betsy, her houseboat moored in the Canal. Now Elizabeth ( and her false identity twin brother, Edwin) poses as an intelligence gatherer - with quiet some reputation in closed circles. The first book, Bullet-Catcher's Daughter was a pretty fascinating and solid read - giving us Elizabeth a spunky heroine leading a double life back in the Republic having escaped the clutches of the notorious Duke of Northampton ( Still to make an appearance, guessing Rod's going to bring him in the finale!) back in the Kingdom who's had an arrest warrant out for her. ![]()
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