<p>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.</p>

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

Literature & Fiction

Patricia Weenolsen

Literary

Rubythroat Press

<p>In 1703, Mary emerges from Abenaki Indian captivity and returns to Salem, where she gathers together a band of abused children. These include Mary's niece, the endearing five-year-old Sophie, whom her mother, Letty, accuses of being a witch and locks up periodically without food or water. Letty also abuses pretty fifteen-year-old black 'Chuba, Letty's slave, whom Letty shoots for secretly feeding Sophie. Roaming the streets is Dorcas, the teen-aged distracted daughter of a hanged witch. And taking refuge in the Pest House are the plague-scarred artistic ten-year-old Abigail, and the inventive twelve-year-old Thaddeus, both cared for by Elihu, a hideously cratered hulk of a man who falls hopelessly in love with Mary. Her moral compass and spiritual knowledge guide her to rescue many victims of societal and individual injustice.</p>

Daughter of the Morning Star: Book II, Remembrance of Things That Never Happened

Weenolsen, Patricia

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Rubythroat Press publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Rubythroat Press

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Rubythroat Press publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

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

Daughter of the Morning Star: Book II, Remembrance of Things That Never Happened