The Traitor’s Wife: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

A riveting historical novel about Peggy Shippen Arnold, the cunning wife of Benedict Arnold and mastermind behind America’s most infamous act of treason…

Everyone knows Benedict Arnold-the Groundbreaking War general who also betrayed America and fled to the British-as history’s most notorious turncoat. Many understand Arnold’s co-conspirator, Main John André, who was simply apprehended with Arnold’s paperwork in his boots and hanged on the orders of General George Washington. But few know of the integral about The Traitor’s Wife: A Book third character in the story: a alluring young female who not merely contributed to the betrayal but orchestrated it.

Socialite Peggy Shippen is definitely half Benedict Arnold’s age group when she seduces the war hero during his stint as armed forces commander of Philadelphia. Blinded by his youthful bride’s beauty and wit, Arnold will not recognize that she harbors a key: loyalty towards the United kingdom. Nor does he understand that she hides a previous romance using the handsome British spy John André. Peggy watches as her hubby, crippled from fight wounds and with debt from many years of provider towards the colonies, expands ever more disillusioned along with his hero, Washington, and the American trigger. As well as her former like and her disaffected spouse, Peggy hatches the story to deliver West Indicate the English and, in trade, win fame and fortune for herself and Arnold.

Told in the perspective of Peggy’s maid, whose faith in the new country inspires her to intervene in her mistress’s affairs even when it could price her everything, The Traitor’s Wife brings these infamous statistics to life, illuminating the sordid details and the love triangle that nearly demolished the American combat for freedom.