Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: Five Star
ISBN-10: 1410433889
Type: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781410433886
In a small village in England, Patience and Gwenneth face a bleak future with no suitors in sight and Patience must leave the convent on her next birthday with no job or marriage offer in sight. When businesses band together in the new world to offer passage to young girls of good character to come and make homes for their employees (as did the original casket girls)the two girls brave the sea, their loved ones' objections and their own fears to set off on the Merrywinds to find love and new lives.
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In the works: Scheduled for December, 2010. Will announce here :-)
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