The Maid-At-Arms: A Novel
1902
George Ormond arrives at Varicks' Manor carrying nothing but the weight of his southern name and the hope of finding kinship in the frozen north. But the Revolutionary War has made strangers of everyone, and his northern relatives, eccentric, fiercely partisan, and watching each other with barely concealed suspicion, may be more dangerous than any redcoat. As George navigates the labyrinth of family loyalty, he finds himself drawn into a world where every handshake hides a motive and every whisper could ruin a name. His cousin Dorothy Varick brings chaos and charm in equal measure; the imposing Jack Mount speaks truths others dare not utter; and the simmering tensions between the Varicks and Butlers threaten to explode into violence at any moment. Chambers weaves a rich tapestry of colonial intrigue where personal honor wars with political allegiance, and love, southern and northern, refuses to die. This is the America that history forgot: not the heroes and battles, but the families torn apart by a revolution they never asked for.
