Out Front the Following Sea

Out Front the Following Sea is a historical epic of one womans survival in a time when the wilderness is still wild, heresy is publicly punishable, and being independent is worse than scornedit is a death sentence. At the onset of King Williams War between French and English settlers in 1689 New England, Ruth Miner is accused of witchcraft for the murder of her parents and must flee the brutality of her town. She stows away on the ship of the only other person who knows her innocence: an audacious sailorOwenbound to her by years of attraction, friendship, and shared secrets. But when Owens French ancestry finds him at odds with a violent English commander, the turmoil becomes life-or-death for the sailor, the headstrong Ruth, and the cast of Quakers, Pequot Indians, soldiers, highwaymen, and townsfolk dragged into the fray. Now Ruth must choose between sending Owen to the gallows or keeping her own neck from the noose. See more