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by Allison Pataki


  Hit the road on a historically themed outing. The interactive guide at www.nps.gov/revwar features places related to the Revolutionary War, which took place from Maine to Florida and as far west as Arkansas and Louisiana. Consider visiting Philadelphia, where Peggy Shippen met both Benedict Arnold and John André.

  Peggy Shippen Arnold was renowned for her beauty. View a portrait of her at www.explorepahistory.com//displayimage.php?imgId=1-2-2E4, or search the website for “Mrs. Benedict Arnold and daughter.”

  Show your patriotic pride by having book club members dress in red, white, and blue, as Peggy did when Benedict Arnold came to call on her. If your loyalties lie with the British, stick with red attire.

  © TRICIA McCORMACK

  ALLISON PATAKI graduated cum laude from Yale University and has spent several years writing for TV and online news outlets. The daughter of former New York State governor George E. Pataki, Allison was inspired to write The Traitor’s Wife based on the rich Revolutionary War history of her hometown in New York State’s Hudson Highlands. The Traitor’s Wife is Allison’s first novel. She lives in Chicago with her husband, David.

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2014 by Allison Pataki

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  First Howard Books trade paperback edition February 2014

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  Interior design by Davina Mock-Maniscalco

  Cover design by Faceout Studio

  Front cover dress photograph • Pixelworks/Steve Gardner • Background photographs by Veer and iStock Photo

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Pataki, Allison.

  The Traitor’s Wife : A Novel—The woman behind Benedict Arnold and the plan to betray America / Allison Pataki.—First Howard Books trade paperback edition.

  pages cm

  1. Arnold, Margaret Shippen, 1760–1804—Fiction.

  2. Arnold, Benedict, 1741–1801—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3616.A8664T73 2014

  813’.6—dc23

  2013023625

  ISBN 978-1-4767-3860-4

  ISBN 978-1-4767-3862-8 (ebook)

  Table of Contents

  EPIGRAPH

  LETTER EXCERPT

  PROLOGUE

  “All Is Lost”

  CHAPTER ONE

  “Never Anger Miss Peggy”

  CHAPTER TWO

  “Delicious Little Heathen”

  CHAPTER THREE

  “Arnold Will Always Be My Enemy”

  CHAPTER FOUR

  “The Most Beautiful Little Patriot in All Thirteen Colonies”

  CHAPTER FIVE

  “Stuck in the Mud”

  CHAPTER SIX

  “There Is Another Way”

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  “Too Far Down This Path”

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  “The Biggest Fish of  Them All”

  CHAPTER NINE

  “In Whom Can We Trust?”

  EPILOGUE

  A NOTE ON HISTORY AND SOURCES

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  READING GROUP GUIDE

  Introduction

  Topics and Questions for Discussion

  A Conversation with Allison Pataki

  Enhance Your Book Club

  ABOUT ALLISON PATAKI

 

 

 


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