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c2010
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"In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen takes work as a servant in her cousin's household. While overseeing the neglected home, she locks wills with those around her, including the tall and silent Thomas Carrier, known for both his immense strength and his mysterious past. As Martha comes to know him, she falls in love--and the two begin a courtship that suits their independent natures. But in the rugged new world they inhabit,...
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Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people...
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After Thomas Carrier saves Martha Allen from a wolf attack, he discovers wild animals are not the only dangers lurking in the Massachusetts woods: assassins have arrived from London to capture Charles I's executioner, said to be living outside Boston under an assumed name. A prequel to "The Heretic's Daughter."
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