Plot

Isabel and Ruth's owner dies leaving them free in her will. Their owners kin does not care that they are free and sells them to the Locktons who are a powerful, rich, loyalist family. They ride to New York on a ship and meet a boy named Curzon who encourages Isabel to spy on her owners for the Patriots. The girls settled in and got to work doing different things. Isabel discovers some plans of Mr. Lockton and reports them to Curzon and a colonel in the American army. While all of this is going on behind Madam's back, Isabel fails to keep her sister's seizures behind it. Madam thinks that Ruth has been taken over by the devil. Madam then sells Ruth and Isabel is furious about this. She gets in a fight with Madam then runs away. Isabel is later cuaght then punished by branding her face with an I. Isabel wakes up 6 days later in Lady Seymour's house. Then she went back to the Lockton estate to go back to work. After hearing that the British were setting slaves free to join thier army, Isabel sneaks out to go ask a commander if she could join the army. He cannot accept her becuase he cannot take loyalists' slaves.She then sees Master Lockton and get her way out of trouble. When Isabel gets home she is told to pack her things and go over to Lady Seymour's house. Isabel serves the soldiers staying in Lady Seymour's house until there is a fire that burns down alot of the town including Lady Seymour's house. Both Isabel and Lady Seymour go back to the Lockton house to stay. While down getting water from the pump one day, Isabel sees a big commotion and goes to see what it is. She finds out that it is Patriot prisoners going into the jail. She sees Curzon going in and feels bad. The Locktons hold a giant party to celebrate the victory and all of the leftovers that they had were hidden by Isabel. Isabel finally gets her chance to go take the leftover food to the prison. She finds that curzon is in bad shape and is shot and sick. She continues to bring food, tend to the dieing Lady Seymour, and eventually pass notes into the prison from the prisoners officers. Lady Seymour figures Isabel out and tells her to be carefull. She continues untill Madam hears about this from a friend and beats Isabel up then locks her in a crate of potatoes. Isabel finds a way to escape the crate the forges a pass that says that she is free. She continues to go get a map and take Lady Seymour's money. She then gpes tp the prison to resque Curzon before she runs away. She smuggles him out then they run to a boat and cross over into New Jersey having escaped. Good Job 10/10