title: Traitor to the Crown: A Spell for the Revolution
author:  C. C. Finlay 
description: In the charming second book of the Traitor to the Crown historical fantasy trilogy, Finlay continues to adeptly reimagine the American Revolution. Magical and mundane terrors follow Proctor Brown, newly trained witch, and Deborah Walcott, Quaker sorceress, as they venture from New England to the battlefields of New York and New Jersey. Proctor and Deborah seek to save unwary witches from the Covenant, an international cabal of power-hungry mages, and must maneuver through the Battle of Long Island, the crossing of the Delaware and the Christmas attack on Trenton. Finlay's clean, clear prose unites imaginative magic and a strong historical foundation. The book delivers inspired, historically-informed nuggets, including Proctor and Deborah inspiring Thomas Paine and saving Betsy Ross. History and fantasy buffs alike will delight in the mystic reworking of well-known events, and fans of romance will enjoy the deepening relationship between Procter and Deborah. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # The Lucky Mistake
  
  
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      TO George Greenviel Esq;
  
  
  SIR,
  
  
  At this Critical Juncture, I find the Authors will have need
  
  
  of a Protector, as well as the Nation, we having peculiar Laws and
  
  
  Liberties to be defended as well as that, but of how different a
  
  
  Nature, none but such Judges as you, are fit to determine; whatever our
  
  
  Province be, I am sure it should be Wit, and you know what Ellevated
  
  
  Ben says, That none can judge of Wit but Wit. Let the Heroes toyl for
  
  
  Crowns and Kingdoms, and with what pretences they please. Let the ]
  
  
  Slaves of State drudge on for false and empty Glories, troubling the
  
  
  repose of the World and ruining their own to gain uneasy Grandure,
  
  
  whilst you, Oh! happyer Sir, great enough by your Birth, yet more
  
  
  Illustrious by your Wit, are capable of enjoying alone that true