Sup With the Devil

Reeks: An Abigail Adams Mystery

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  • *Murder
  • in
  • Colonial
  • America...1774:
  • Spring
  • brings
  • uncertainty
  • to
  • Boston
  • as
  • the
  • entire
  • city
  • awaits
  • the
  • Crown’s
  • response
  • to
  • the
  • infamous
  • Tea
  • Party.
  • Urged
  • on
  • by
  • the
  • Sons
  • of
  • Liberty—and
  • Abigail’s
  • husband,
  • John—militias
  • form
  • and
  • arm
  • themselves.
  • But
  • when
  • a
  • Harvard
  • Loyalist
  • is
  • murdered,
  • the
  • only
  • side
  • Abigail
  • finds
  • herself
  • on
  • is
  • the
  • side
  • of
  • justice…*After
  • an
  • attempt
  • on
  • the
  • life
  • of
  • her
  • scholarly
  • young
  • nephew
  • Horace,
  • Abigail
  • travels
  • to
  • Harvard
  • to
  • investigate.
  • A
  • mysterious
  • woman
  • had
  • hired
  • Horace
  • to
  • translate
  • some
  • Arabic,
  • only
  • to
  • leave
  • him
  • disoriented
  • and
  • frightened—and
  • at
  • the
  • mercy
  • of
  • her
  • henchmen.
  • But
  • Horace
  • survived—with
  • a
  • tale
  • of
  • pirate
  • treasure…While
  • Abigail
  • and
  • Horace
  • try
  • to
  • unravel
  • the
  • strange
  • circumstances,
  • one
  • of
  • his
  • fellow
  • students—a
  • young
  • man
  • loyal
  • to
  • the
  • King—is
  • murdered.
  • And
  • though
  • the
  • Sons
  • of
  • Liberty
  • are
  • desperate
  • to
  • find
  • the
  • rumored
  • gold,
  • Abigail
  • is
  • more
  • interested
  • in
  • the
  • truth.
  • For
  • the
  • Devil’s
  • treasure
  • comes
  • with
  • a
  • curse
  • that
  • could
  • bring
  • down
  • anyone,
  • regardless
  • of
  • where
  • their
  • allegiance lies…
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