Captive Bride e-bog
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Maria stood above the harbor aimlessly watching the activity on the water. Skiffs were moving back and forth preparing a merchant vessel, the Portsmouth, to sail the next day. Watching the crew and the native longshoremen lifting bale after bale of goods onto the skiff, Maria wondered. Why isn't Joaquina here to meet me, when she asked me to come and see her off?Something is not right!This nave...
E-bog
42,15 DKK
Forlag
ReadersMagnet LLC
Udgivet
28 november 2017
Længde
176 sider
Genrer
Historical fiction
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781947765429
Maria stood above the harbor aimlessly watching the activity on the water. Skiffs were moving back and forth preparing a merchant vessel, the Portsmouth, to sail the next day. Watching the crew and the native longshoremen lifting bale after bale of goods onto the skiff, Maria wondered. Why isn't Joaquina here to meet me, when she asked me to come and see her off?Something is not right!This nave fifteen-year-old girl, unaware of her beauty, had no idea her life, as she knew it, would never be the same. She could feel a warning sign within her the moment she saw one of the men she had met that morning coming toward her.Maria del los Santos y Castro (generally written MariaDilessantos) at the age of seventeen married Nathaniel Savory on November 30, 1850. They had ten children. Maria became the matriarch of a very large family. Helen Jane, one of the Savory ten, birthed Alice Webb who becamethe authors grandmother.This book is Maria's story. She is the ';Captive Bride.'