Loyalty and Deceit

<p>Paul C. Colella's literary endeavor is the sequel to his first book <i>Patriots and Scoundrels: Charity's First Adventure</i>. In the sequel two years have past since young Charity Chastine's arrival to post-Revolutionary War America and she continues struggling to find her place in American society among the privileged and common classes with their sorrows and joys stories and secrets.</p><p>Charity is involved with a gallery of individuals she has named patriots and scoundrels who have lured her into a web of deception deceit and treachery. As she tries to separate the heroes from the villains she becomes entangled in the desperate search for a hidden treasure and a priceless diamond while being stalked by a mysterious stranger and haunted by the apparitions of a young local girl and her Redcoat boyfriend whose murders were never solved.</p><p>What shocking and inevitable events await poor Charity? Who will come to her rescue? How will these encounters along with a favorite and mysterious doll in her possession affect Charity's life and the people around her who walk a thin line between loyalty and deceit?</p>