Sunshine and Shadow, or, Paul Burton's Surprise: A Romance of the American Revolution

In the waning days of the American Revolution, a young woman finds herself orphaned and alone, sent to the New England countryside to recover what remains of her world. Nettie Spaulding arrives at her uncle's farmhouse still wearing the shadow of her father's death, expecting nothing but solitude and grief. Then she meets Paul Burton by the lake - kind, wealthy, and carrying his own invisible wounds. What begins as a chance encounter becomes something neither expected: a connection that threatens to undo them both. As revolutionary fever sweeps through the countryside and old family secrets surface from the shadows of the past, both Nettie and Paul must choose between the safety of silence and the courage to build something new. Moore writes with the sentimental earnestness of her era, capturing how love blooms not despite History's chaos but within it - how two people can find their way toward each other when everything around them is falling apart. For readers who delight in Victorian romances and historical fiction that puts emotional interiority at the center of grand events.