Rehoboth

by Angela Hunt Book 4 in the The Keepers of the Ring series.

First published 1997

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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 directed at her ancestry.

King Philip’s War divides siblings and exposes Indigenous Christians to danger from both colonial and Native forces. The novel challenges the assumption that conversion requires cultural erasure and shows how colonial fear can make profession of faith irrelevant in the eyes of authorities. Witness becomes costly precisely because Mojag and Aiyana refuse to treat either community as disposable.