Once she posed as a camp trollop to pry a colonel's secrets loose between kisses. At splendid balls she coquetted with redcoats - traitors unaware for the promise in her eyes. Posing as a ragged boy she fled through swamps, desperately eluding the King's death regiment-minutes ahead of her executioners. She was Mistress Debby Treat, the reckless, golden-haired Virginia beauty who gambled all of herself in the cause of liberty. Except for her heart. She gave that to a rebel soldier - who himself belonged to a Tory belle

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