Midwife of the Blue Ridge

ISBN: 9780425221686

出版年: 2008-8

页数: 420

定价: 102.00元

内容简介

A stirring debut novel aof love, struggle, and savagery on Americaas colonial frontiera (Bernard Cornwell). They call her Dark Maggie for her thick black hair, but the name also has a more sinister connotation. As the lone survivor of an attack on her village, she was thought to be cursedaand unfit for marriage. Maggie is also gifted with quick wits and skilled in medicine, trained as a midwife. Venturing to the colonies as an indentured servant, she hopes to escape the superstitions of the old countryaand find a home of her own. But what she discovers is a New World fraught with new dangers.