Book summary

This is a novel about the founding of the fictional West Virginia community of Beulah by Hannah Bridewell, a transported London prostitute, and Jeremiah Catlett, a fugitive bondsman, in the years before the American Revolution. This is the first novel in Settle's "Beulah Quintet."

Media reviews

"The author's research in the British Museum has paid off in the realism with which she invests her characters."