Iron Hand, Chief of the Tory League; or, The Double Face

Captain Edgar Sherwood, born to privilege and primed for greatness within the British Empire, watches his future crumble when England denies him justice. The wound festers into conviction, and he abandons his birthright to fight beside the colonial rebels in their desperate hour. But the Revolution's true enemy hides not in battlefield charges but in shadowed rooms where the Tory League plots to strangle independence at its source. Their leader, the enigmatic Iron Hand, wears a double face - and the man betrothed to Sherwood's love may wear it too. Love becomes a weapon, loyalty a currency of suspicion, and every victory rings hollow when the enemy might be sleeping in your own tent. Written in the robust voice of late Victorian historical adventure, Forest delivers a tale where conviction costs everything and trust is the first casualty of war.