Indentured servant Alice Cole barely remembers when she was not âboundâ, first to the Morton family, then to their daughter Nabbyâher companion since childhoodâwhen she wed. But Nabbyâs 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, freedomâas well as gratitude, friendship, and trustâhas a price far higher than she ever imagined.
Sally Cabot Gunning lives in Brewster, Massachusetts, with her husband, Tom. A lifelong resident of New England, she is active in local historical organizations and creates tours that showcase the three-hundred-year history of her village. She is the author of three âSatucket novelsâ (The Widowâs War, Bound, and The Rebellion of Jane Clarke), as well as the historical novels Benjamin Franklinâs Bastard and Monticello.