The Journey of the Snake - Paperback

by Adam Smith (Author)

Emily Brontë's Heathcliff has fled Wuthering Heights and landed in Revolutionary America. Bent on avenging Catherine Earnshaw's rejection, he seeks the fortune he needs in British-occupied Charleston-throwing in his lot with a young woman whose past burns with its own dark vengeance...

Charlotte Savatier's childhood ended when she watched her Wacataw mother and French father hang for a crime they didn't commit. Whisked off to Quebec City by her uncle, she grew into adulthood under the shadow of loss, knowing all along who betrayed her parents.

Now, as war rages, Charlotte's husband-a British army attorney-is sent to Charleston to investigate the murder of a prominent French prisoner of war. When he dies under suspicious circumstances, the Board of Police pressure Charlotte to take over his case. She refuses-until she discovers the royalist officer she must report to is the very man who killed her parents.

To bring him down, she needs a cunning ally-and finds one in Heathcliff. But as more murders complicate her investigation, controlling Heathcliff's greed becomes an even greater challenge-one that could cost Charlotte her life.