Surrounded by the musket fire of the American Revolution, Rachel Garnet prays for her family to be safe. When the British invade the Mohawk Valley and her father and brother don’t return from the battle, she goes in pursuit of them. She finds her brother alive but her father has been killed at the hand of the enemy. Amidst the death, how can she ignore a cry for help? Rachel reluctantly takes in a badly wounded British officer. But how long can her sense of Christian duty repress her hatred for his scarlet coat? Passages of Scripture and fleeting images of society are all Andrew Wyndham recalls after he awakens to the log walls of his gentle prison. Even his name eludes him. Rachel Garnet insists he is a captain in the British army. He mourns the loss of his memory, but how can he hope to remember war when his “enemy” is capturing his heart? Andrew’s injuries are severe, his memory slow to return, and the secret of his existence too perilous to ignore. As Rachel nurses him back to health, his hidden scarlet coat threatens to expose the deeds of her merciful heart, and Andrew is forced to face a harrowing decision—Stay hidden and risk losing the woman he loves or turn himself in and risk losing his life.
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Summary
Book Title: The Scarlet Coat
Book Author: Angela Couch
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"It remains unclear why you are helping me. . . . . "
" . . . . because somewhere in a place I've never been, in a time I've only heard of, a man said to love your enemies."
Rachel Garnet and her brother, Joseph make a life changing decision; just hours after discovering the lifeless body of their beloved father following a fierce battle in the Mohawk Valley, they rescue a British officer barely clinging to life after suffering multiple injuries during the same skirmish. Thinking that Captain Andrew Wyndham will perhaps breathe his last breath over night, they are horrified when he responds to their care and begins to recover. Desperate to hide his presence from their neighbors, they bury his scarlet coat, but cannot bury their fluctuating emotions about the clergyman-turned-soldier whose life breathes the Scriptures and who exhibits immeasurable kindness in spite of his circumstances .
This Revolutionary War story may read like a debut novel in the beginning, but gains its footing, ultimately accelerating in intensity and depth, ending well beyond the beginning and setting up its readers up for a much anticipated sequel.
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