1. Roanoke
English colonists arrive at Roanoke with inadequate supplies, divided leadership and assumptions about the land and its Indigenous inhabitants that quickly prove dangerous. Hunt uses surviving clues and later tradition to imagine how hunger, conflict and the colony’s isolation might have led its people away from…
2. Jamestown
Fallon, Gilda and Noshi survive the destruction that ends their Roanoke childhood but are separated by execution, forced migration, enslavement and adoption. Fallon reaches England and later struggles back towards Virginia, determined to honour the promise that he will recover the younger children entrusted to him.…
3. Hartford
Daniel Bailie grows up resenting the confidence and ability of his brother Taregan. When English forces enter the family’s world, Daniel seizes the chance to escape Taregan’s shadow, but the choice draws both brothers into the alliances and destruction of the Pequot War. The conflict makes…
4. Rehoboth
Daniel Bailie brings his children Mojag and Aiyana to New England communities shaped by Puritan settlement and missionary work among the so-called praying Indians. Mojag believes he is called to serve people outside the protected Christian towns, while Aiyana enters an English household and confronts suspicion…
5. Charles Towne
Rachelle Bailie has always believed her English clergyman father died in an Indigenous attack. Her mother’s deathbed confession reveals instead that Mojag Bailie is alive and that Rachelle’s own ancestry has been concealed, sending her aboard a ship to search for the man whose survival changes…