Her television credits include the Disney XD animated series, Tron: Uprising WGN’s Salem and Hallmark’s, The Good Witch. The director of several award-winning short films, including The Night Caller, which aired on PBS and was featured on Ain’t It Cool News, Donna has been a sorority house mother, a Disney/ABC Television Writing Fellow, and a WGA Writer’s Access Project Honoree. She later earned an MFA in film production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. For a number of years she managed architecture and interpretation at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, and wrote and directed the Witch City’s most popular Halloween theater festival, Eerie Events. Soon, the two are launched on a desperate journey through the wilderness, toward a future shaped by the revolution-and their passion for each other…Ī native of Bergenfield, New Jersey, Donna graduated from Yale with a degree in Classics and Art History. By the time Severin meets up with Jenny once again, she is on a British hanging list, and Severin is ordered to find her-and deliver her to certain death. Months later, Jenny has abandoned her dreams of stage glory and begun writing seditious plays for the Rebels under the pen name “Cornelia,” ridiculing “Gentleman Johnny” Burgoyne and his army-and undermining the crown’s campaign to take Albany.

But the tables are turned when Severin himself can’t resist Jennifer Leighton… Severin’s mission is to keep the pleasure-loving general focused on the war effort…and away from pretty young actresses. But her plan is foiled by British intelligence officer Severin Devere. When the playwright General John Burgoyne visits the city, fresh from a recent success in the capitol, she seizes the opportunity to court his patronage.

American actress Jennifer Leighton has been packing the John Street Theater with her witty comedies, but she longs to escape the provincial circuit for the glamour of the London stage.

Mistress Firebrand by Donna Thorland