All her life, Mary has been taught to fear God, submit to her husband, and abhor Indians. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors open and straightforward way of life, a feeling further complicated by her attraction to a generous, protective English-speaking native known as James Printer. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader, made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. She has learned to live in a new, free way. She has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath. She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again.
∺n authentic drama of Indian captivity⁚ compelling, emotionally gripping tale.”≾liot Pattison, author of the Mystery of Colonial America series A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson
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