It is 1644, and Parliament’s armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels’ hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget’s friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer.
Bridget
joins forces with Martha Hawkins, a servant who’s far more skilled with
a knife than any respectable woman ought to be. To save Esther from the
stake, they must dodge rebel artillery, confront a murderous figure
from Martha’s past, and capture a brutal killer who will stop at nothing
to cover his tracks. The investigation takes Bridget and Martha from
the homes of the city’s most powerful families to the alleyways of its
poorest neighborhoods. As they delve into the life of Esther’s murdered
husband, they discover that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply
sinister secret life, and that far too often tyranny and treason go hand
in hand. - From http://www.abovethetreeline.com/edelweiss
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