The Journey of the Snake

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Emily Brontë's Heathcliff has fled Wuthering Heights and landed in Revolutionary America. Bent on avenging Catherine Earnshaw's rejection he seeks the fortune he needs in British-occupied Charleston-throwing in his lot with a young woman whose past burns with its own dark vengeance...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Charlotte Savatier's childhood ended when she watched her Wacataw mother and French father hang for a crime they didn't commit. Whisked off to Quebec City by her uncle she grew into adulthood under the shadow of loss knowing all along who betrayed her parents. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now as war rages Charlotte's husband-a British army attorney-is sent to Charleston to investigate the murder of a prominent French prisoner of war. When he dies under suspicious circumstances the Board of Police pressure Charlotte to take over his case. She refuses-until she discovers the royalist officer she must report to is the very man who killed her parents.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To bring him down she needs a cunning ally-and finds one in Heathcliff. But as more murders complicate her investigation controlling Heathcliff's greed becomes an even greater challenge-one that could cost Charlotte her life.</span></p>