Binding: Paperback
Description: An indentured servant finds herself bound by law society and her own heart in this novel set in colonial Cape Cod from the author of acclaimed The Widow's War. Indentured servant Alice Cole barely remembers when she was not bound first to the Morton family then to their daughter Nabby her companion since childhood when she wed. But Nabby's new marriage is not happy and when Alice finds herself torn between her new master and her old friend she runs away to Boston. There she meets a sympathetic widow named Lyddie Berry and her lawyer companion Eben Freeman. Impulsively stowing away on their ship to Satucket on Cape Cod Alice finds employment making cloth with Lyddie. Yet as Alice soon discovers freedom as well as gratitude friendship and trust has a price far higher than she ever imagined.
Title: Bound A Novel
Author(s): Gunning Sally Cabot
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061240263
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/24/2009