The Rebellion of Jane Clarke: A Novel

From the author of The Widow's War and Bound comes a compelling new novel about a young woman's struggle to decide where her loyalties lie--with family or wiht forbidden love; with roaylist tradition or upstart independence--on the eve of the Revolutionary War.

It's 1769. The Winslow and Clarke families have been feuding over mill stream rights for generations, but Jane Clarke has managed to stay comfortably aloof, neither doubting her father's claims nor getting overly involved. But when someone hacks the ears off Mr. Winslow's horse, everyone in town believes that Mr. Clarke is the culprit, and Jane's world view and trust in her father are turned upside down. So when Phineas Pain asks for her hand in marriage after securing her father's blessing, Jane says no, and is sent to Boston as punishment to care for her spinster aunt.

But when Jane arrives in Boston the only thing she can think about is the conflict in her life--father vs. daughter, loyalist vs. rebel, Winslow vs. Clarke--that is now complicated further by her seemingly unbalanced aunt, the kind British soldiers and the local townspeople who taunt them, and her beloved brother who is fervently channeling his own frustrations into rebel activity.

As political tensions mount, Jane finds herself deeply embroiled in the impending war, and as a witness to the Boston Massacre, and she comes to question the seeming truth.

Piper Goodeve began narrating in 2011 and has since given voice to over a hundred titles. As a stage actress, Piper has appeared off Broadway as well as at theaters across the country, such as the McCarter, the Weston Playhouse, and Syracuse Stage. Happily splitting her time between Brooklyn and Vermont, Piper holds a BA from New York University and received her MFA in acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep.A lifelong resident of New England, Sally Cabot Gunning has immersed herself in its history from a young age. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Satucket Novels--The Widow's War, Bound, and The Rebellion of Jane Clarke--and, writing as Sally Cabot, the equally acclaimed Benjamin Franklin's Bastard. She lives in Brewster, Massachusetts, with her husband, Tom.

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