The Cave of Storms: Book I, Remembrance of Things That Never Happened

The year is 1692. The place is Salem. After witnessing the hanging of her beloved sister on Salem's Gallows Hill, fourteen-year-old Mary flees the witch hunters with her five-year-old brother, Ephraim, into the American wilderness. Trek with them to Katahdin in Maine where Ephraim escapes up the mountain to the Great God Pomola's stronghold in the Cave of Storms. Fight beside the limping Soaring Eagle who, desperate for Mary's love, throws stones for her to pick up in the Abenaki tradition of seduction, only to suffer her rejection, after which the flirtatious Hill Dancer captures his affections. Escape with them past bands of "child-chomping" Iroquois to the prayer village near Quebec, Canada, where the Jesuit Fathers try to convert them from Manitou's ways to their own God's. Tumultuous love, betrayal, treachery, poison, and miracles await them.