Promised in marriage to a Huron warrior she fears, Maggie risks everything in a run for her freedom.Ĭontent to ignore the rising animosity between the British and the Ottawa villagers he calls his friends, Baptiste Geroux plants his fields, limping behind his oxen and waiting for his brother to return from the west. Taken captive at age eleven during the battle at Fort McCord, she's learned to adapt and to trust no one. Maggie's Strength Second Place Finalist for the Selah Award for Historical Fiction!
Her rescuer.Īre trust and admiration enough to help them survive the siege and its devastating consequences? Is there any hope for a future beyond? She’s going to need someone she can trust, and she trusts Cully. Sarah sees Cully as the last link to her past. And, though he doesn’t admit as much, she tugs at his heart. Tempers flare, disease breaks out, and the constant fear of the next attack has everyone on edge.Ĭully keeps an eye on Sarah because he feels responsible for her. Worried about trader friends on his delivery route, he rides to their settlement and returns with Sarah, the only survivor.įort Pitt is crowded to twice its capacity with the settlers who have taken refuge there and surrounded by the rising smoke of burned-out settlements. When he pulls his freight wagons into Fort Pitt, Leith McCully never dreams he’ll be conscripted into the militia and ordered to defend the fort. An Indian attack at dawn changes everything. Sarah Feight has her life planned with a loving husband, a promising new settlement, and big dreams to shape the future of trade on Pennsylvania’s frontier. Sarah's Choice WINNER of Selah Award for Historical Fiction! Occasionally, for five minutes at a time, they'd come together and pray and agree that they were there for a common cause, but then division would rear its ugly head again.
and Jamestown! So much bickering amongst the leadership, even those who all professed to be fervent Christians. Simon Fernandes dumping the 1587 colonists in a location they did not choose, the colonists as one against their own governor (even though that was to send him back to England in an attempt to appeal for the sake of the colony). From the very beginnings of what we know as our country-Native people was set against Native people, the Spanish against the French and the English, and certainly what we know of the various attempts at English settlements (to where America traditionally traces her earliest start), division was endemic. The Revolutionary War versus those loyal to the crown ( I learned this from your stories), the Civil War, and it goes on and on and here we are. It's interesting to think that as a nation, we have always been divided. The blog has been quiet as all of us here at Colonial Quills are dealing with various real-life issues, but a dear friend shared a thought worth sharing-and expounding upon.
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