Spanish Patriot

A correspondent chasing the truth. A printer's daughter who is the truth. A brother marching toward the battle that will decide it all.

Spain, 1808. Napoleon has swallowed a kingdom, and Britain has finally thrown its army into the fight. Samuel Kerr, the hungriest correspondent at London's Beacon, sails for Corunna to report the war as it truly is - not the tidy version served to readers at home. He expects mud, bullets, and the story of his life. He does not expect Louisa Wakefield.

Born in Virginia, raised in the Caribbean, schooled in London, and stranded in Spain with her Loyalist American family and their printing press, Louisa has ink under her nails, opinions in print, and no patience for an Englishman who assumes she's waiting to be rescued. She doesn't need Samuel Kerr. She needs him out of her way.

Far inland, her brother is running for his life. Lieutenant Fred Wakefield marches with the 95th Rifles as Sir John Moore's army turns and retreats toward the sea through the killing cold of a Spanish winter - toward the port, the ships, and the battle that will decide whether Britain stays in the war at all.

As Corunna braces for siege, three lives collide, and the dispatch Samuel files next could change all of them.

The Spanish Patriot is a standalone novel of love and war on the Peninsula, told across the printing room and the battlefield. For readers of Kate Quinn, Kristin Harmel, and Lynn Bryant's Peninsular War Saga