A New Joy (White Mountain Brides Book 2)

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Orphaned at a young age, Jane Miller was indentured as a housemaid. During an Indian raid in 1689 New Hampshire, she was captured, carried off to Canada, and sold by the Indians to the French. She was married against her will at age 16 to a French farmer in Quebec. Her abusive husband died four years later. When Captain Baldwin and Charles Gardner arrive and purchase her ransom, Jane returns to the village of Cochecho with little hope left. Rev. and Mrs. Jewett try to find a husband for her, but Jane is not sure she can enter another arranged marriage. Charles Gardner has no intention of finding a wife. He, too, endured Indian captivity and is only beginning to rebuild his life. But he cannot keep himself from thinking of Jane. A stilted courtship, a distant marriage, hostile Indians. Jane is determined she will not be captured again. Will life repeat itself for her, or does God have joy in store for those who remain faithful to him?