Rebekah's Winter

Rebekah Boyce is a young woman who lives on a farm outside of Philadelphia when thee revolutionary war came to her doorstep. In peacetime, and in her happy childhood, there were few situations that her cute and carefree demeanor couldn’t get her out of. That all changes when a British patrol shows up to quarter her house, taking her father and brother prisoner. She is subsequently rescued by a detachment of Continental soldiers, led by Captain Wallace Adair. She is taken under the wing of Captain Adair, and has a series of trials and tribulations as she endures the difficult winter of 1777 with the Continental Army, at Valley Forge. Their relationship is at first adversarial as she is merely one of the inconveniences of wartime, but their relationship slowly grows until a bond is forged between them.



Although the main characters are fictional, I have strived to make the scenes at Valley Forge as historically accurate as possible, drawing on the experiences of the hundreds of camp women who were actually at Valley Forge and are little more than historical footnotes, seldom showing up in the stories about that iconic piece of American history.