The Remarkable Cause is a historical fiction novel based on primary source research. James Lovell was a teacher at the Boston Latin School during the years before the conflicst with the British became the Revolutionary War. A patriot, he is arrested for spying after the Battle of Bunker Hill, and spends eighteen horrible months in British prisons for spying. This painful experience only deepens Lovell's desire to serve his country; upon his release, he joins Congress.

When James Lovell becomes a teacher at the Boston Latin School alongside his father, he realizes he will never agree with his father’s views about the growing British and American conflict. James desperately wants to help the American cause, but when he is arrested for spying, alone in a dark, cold cell of the Boston Stone Jail, his dreams seem a faint illusion.
          
​In icy March winds, pounded by the Americans’ cannon, General Howe evacuates British troops and Loyalists from Boston. James is forced into a ship bound for Halifax, while his father and family take passage for the British stronghold in the ship’s upper berth. In jail in Halifax, James can only write letters and pray for release, hoping General George Washington will hear his appeal.