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What if the stranger you trust carries a secret that could cost you your life?
In The Reckoning, Robert W. Chambers brings the American Revolution into the woods and settlements of New York. Neighbors, friends and families stand on opposite sides of a war fought close to home. Messages must be carried, strangers must be judged, and a wrong guess about someone can cost a life. Here, trust is never a small matter.
This historical romance brings a love story into a world of spies and risky errands. Personal feeling collides with public duty, while woods, rivers and lonely farms shape where people can go and who can find them. The frontier is more than a backdrop: it makes each secret harder to keep and each choice more dangerous.
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- A war close to home Enter a divided New York where the conflict reaches into friendships, families and neighboring homes.
- Secrets worth a life Follow risky errands where carrying a message means deciding whom to trust.
- Love against duty Discover a romance shaped by the pull between private feeling and public obligation.
- A frontier that matters Explore woods, rivers and lonely farms that shape both danger and escape.
- Loyalties under strain Feel the uncertainty of a war where battle lines divide people who know one another.
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This book suits readers who enjoy old-fashioned historical adventure, with a love story, a frontier setting and a war that splits communities. If you want a modern, tightly researched history of the Revolution, you may find it less suited.
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by Robert W. Chambers· 1905
War divides families and neighbors on New York’s frontier.
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A war that divides neighbors
The story is set in New York during the Revolutionary War. This was not a war of clean battle lines. In the valleys and settlements of the province, many people stayed loyal to the Crown while others sided with the patriots, and the two groups lived side by side.
Chambers builds his plot on that tension. Loyalty is never simple in his pages, because a person may owe duty to a country, a family, a friend or a promise, and these claims can pull in different directions.
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Robert W. Chambers
1865–1933 · American novelist and illustrator
Robert W. Chambers was an American writer whose 1895 collection The King in Yellow became a cornerstone of weird fiction, casting its influence over H.P. Lovecraft and generations of horror writers since. He was a successful popular novelist in his day, but this early work is what endures.
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What is The Reckoning by Robert W. Chambers about?
It is a historical adventure novel set in New York during the American Revolution. It mixes spying, frontier danger and romance, and shows how the war set neighbors and loyalties against each other.
Is The Reckoning a true story?
No. It is a work of historical fiction. Chambers placed invented characters in the real setting of Revolutionary War New York, using the period and its divisions as the background for his plot.
Who was Robert W. Chambers?
He was an American writer and former illustrator who died in 1933. He wrote many popular novels, including historical romances of New York and the weird tale collection The King in Yellow.
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