Synopsis
When a young woman moves her family to the North Carolina wilderness, she depends on her spiritual fortitude and loving compassion to become the leader her Quaker community desperately needs.
“An original story of a woman’s determination to meet the challenges of frontier life in Piedmont North Carolina during the mid to late 1700s as well as her striving to maintain the standards of goodness expected of her Quaker faith and of her calling to ministry. Readers will learn much about Quaker ideals and practices during the colonial period.” —Courtney Smith, Exhibits and Programs Coordinator, Orange County Historical Museum
“Haines paints vivid word pictures of the daunting task of uprooting from home and traveling through barely broken wilderness to a new land where life has to start over from scratch… within the tension developing in the novel around maintaining a faith community, confronting slavery and war, and remaining true to Quaker testimony.” —Max Carter, Emeritus Professor of Quaker Studies, Guilford College
