A Poison Tree

By: Healey

Who can you trust, when even friends might be enemies?September 1780: a war for independence is ripping through the American colonies turning neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, family against family. Young widow Rachel Stoddard Hartshorn returns to her family home in Jericho, Connecticut after her husband was killed a year earlier in a horrific raid by the British on New Haven. But the comfort she sought in her family home is hardly to be found: her brother and his children are suffering terribly from the tragedies of war, a courier for the Patriots has been mysteriously murdered in the woods nearby with his invaluable papers stolen, and a doctor sent as a fellow courier has been badly wounded as well. As a midwife and healer, Rachel welcomes the injured and enigmatic doctor into her family and in the process the two are drawn to work together to recover the papers and solve the murder. Will the suspicions of the community and the unexpected return of childhood friends prevent them from finding the missing intelligence before it falls into the hands of the British? And can Rachel and Josiah move beyond their painful and bitter pasts to trust each other and their growing romantic feelings?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HP3QX8RN
• ISBN13: 9798907819276
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Kathleen Healey
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"