A riveting historical novel about Peggy Shippen Arnold, the cunning wife of Benedict Arnold and mastermind behind America’s most infamous act of treason…

Everyone understands Benedict Arnold-the Revolutionary War general who all betrayed America and fled towards the British-as history’s most notorious turncoat. Many know Arnold’s co-conspirator, Main John André, who was apprehended with Arnold’s files in his footwear and hanged in the orders of General George Washington. But few understand of the essential about The Traitor’s Wife: A Novel third personality in the story: a alluring young girl who not only contributed to the betrayal but orchestrated it.

Socialite Peggy Shippen is normally half Benedict Arnold’s age when she seduces the battle hero during his stint as military commander of Philadelphia. Blinded by his youthful bride’s beauty and wit, Arnold will not realize that she harbors a key: loyalty to the English. Nor will he understand that she hides a previous romance using the handsome English spy John André. Peggy watches as her husband, crippled from battle wounds and in debt from many years of program towards the colonies, expands a lot more disillusioned along with his hero, Washington, and the American cause. Together with her former love and her disaffected spouse, Peggy hatches the storyline to deliver Western Indicate the English and, in exchange, win popularity and fortune for herself and Arnold.

Told through the perspective of Peggy’s maid, whose faith in the new country inspires her to intervene in her mistress’s affairs even when it could price her everything, The Traitor’s Wife brings these infamous figures to life, illuminating the sordid information and the like triangle that almost damaged the American battle for freedom.