Daughters of the Revolution

An Unforgettable Wartime Story of a Vanished Heir and an Impossible Choice, and the Promise That Outlived a WarBy A. L. Chen

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Mercy Crane. 1756 to 1776. Twenty years old. Lily traces the worn letters of the headstone she shares half her name with — and a thousand miles away, in that same moment, her mother collapses. Lily is sixteen. She came to the Old Granary Burying Ground because her mom asked her to, to photograph a relative's plot she didn't care about. Then the wind flips her guidebook open to a footnote nobody is supposed to read: A network of women — laundresses, seamstresses, nurses — spied for the Sons of Liberty between 1773 and 1776. One name appears in Loyalist dispatches. A woman called only "the Crane." The Crane. Mercy Crane. Dead the year the war truly began, at almost exactly Lily's age. Her phone buzzes. It's her dad, in the voice he uses when he's trying not to panic. "Your mom collapsed. The ambulance is taking her to Mass General." Her mother — who grew up three blocks from this graveyard and pretended she'd never set foot in the city. Her mother — who has been keeping secrets older than both of them. As her mom fights for her life, Lily follows a coded journal, a locket she was never meant to open, and a vanished heir back through two hundred and fifty years to the impossible choice Mercy made — a choice that decided who in this family lived, and who was erased. The code doesn't want to be cracked. The journal was never supposed to exist. And the more Lily learns, the more she understands her mother didn't bring her to Boston by accident. History isn't behind Lily. It's reaching forward. And it's asking her to make the same terrible promise Mercy made — the one that outlived a war. Some debts are inherited. Some daughters are chosen. And some secrets only the dead can finally forgive. Daughters of the Revolution is an unforgettable YA historical novel about a vanished heir, a colonial spy, a mother's hidden past, an impossible choice, and a promise that outlived a war. Perfect for readers who love dual-timeline historical fiction, brave girls on both sides of history, family secrets unburied, Revolutionary-era spies, and stories where the past won't stay buried. A standalone teen historical novel.

Mystery Family Espionage Healing Political Intrigue Betrayal Conspiracy Hidden Identity Journey Rebellion Thriller