Beautiful, sensuous and flighty, Flo’s nature puts an abrupt end to her life as a pastor’s wife. As a “fallen woman” she struggles for survival and respectability as a nurse, but the death of a lover, desperation and the outbreak of World War One give her no choice but to put her children in an orphanage and betray her country. How can she extricate herself from this terrible quandary? “Trail to Treason” is a novel based closely on the life of Patricia’s own grandmother whose story remained secret for over a century.