The Thief and Me

=Jake Rourke, seeking redemption in Revolutionary America, landed Lady Virginia Chapman on his pallet from their shipwreck. Lady Virginia Chapman is coming to America to look for her husband, who was supposed to be home months ago from business in New York City. Each castaway finds the other ridiculous, until danger and need fastens them together in a hair-raising adventure with outrageous lies and a fake marriage.

"The Thief and Me" takes place during the end of the American Revolution when England had total occupation of New York City. Two people, Jake and Jenny, find themselves thrown together after being shipwrecked on a voyage to America. They must hide their identities and create a fake marriage to survive in the New World. This book is a sequel to "The Indian and Me" and follows the struggle Native Americans faced after the Revolution to find where they fit into the new nation. Ki and Julia Rainsford find themselves in the middle of this struggle, and Jake and Jenny's adventures will test Julia and Ki's marriage to the extreme.

Cathy DesRosiers Peebles was a history teacher for thirty years who loved the American Revolution. She believes that the American Indians have contributed so much to make this country what it is today. Classrooms and textbooks only tell a small portion of the whole story of how the country got to its current place, and Cathy is passionate about sharing the influences of the many cultures that existed prior to the pre-colonial waves of immigration.