Joe Wearmouth spends his days in Texas courtrooms and his early mornings in 18th-century Boston. A litigation attorney based in El Paso, he’s spent the last twenty years haunted (in the best way) by the American Revolution. Chasing footnotes, old letters, and forgotten lives until the era feels more like a second home than a distant past.

He writes historical fiction set in these chaotic years because it’s the only way he’s found to time-travel there every day. His debut novel, coming this summer, follows an ordinary man caught in the slow-motion chaos that results in a massacre on Boston’s busiest street. As the 250th anniversary of American independence approaches, Joe invites you back to the noise and doubt and danger of the beginning.

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