The Bride of the Wilderness

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453232521

<DIV><b>Born in squalid London at the turn of the eighteenth century, a girl makes a fresh start in the New World<BR><BR></b></div><DIV></div><DIV>Fanny&rsquo;s father, Henry Harding, has known Oliver Barebones since the two men were children. Together they survived the Great Plague and the Great Fire, and now they are rich, middle-aged, and unmarried. Everyone&rsquo;s shocked when Oliver, a lifelong bachelor, falls headfirst for a superstitious young girl named Rose. In two days he&rsquo;s decided to marry her. For the Hardings and the Barebones, it will be years before they find such happiness again.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>Ruin comes to them all in the shape of Alfred Montagu, a cold-hearted moneylender who ensnares them in crushing debt and schemes to marry Fanny. After her father dies, Fanny attempts to take refuge in France. It&rsquo;s not far enough to escape her troubles, so with Oliver and Rose, she departs for a far-off place called Connecticut, dodging Montagu by diving into the teeth of dangers no London girl could ever imagine.</div>