Celebrate Halloween with a chilling tale of historical superstition and witch-hunts!
Accused of witchcraft. Hunted by her neighbours. Forced to flee across an ocean. In 1663, being different is a death sentence.
Avis Wynter is a foundling, set apart from the milk-skinned maids of Edenham, by her apple-pip brown skin and night black hair. But when the sixteen-year-old suffers her first “falling,” prejudice turns to deadly superstition. Blamed for everything from failing crops to murder, Avis must flee the hangman’s noose. Her desperate escape takes her across the Atlantic on a perilous journey of survival. In a brutal new world, Avis must fight for her life, uncover the secrets of her birth, and find her way back home.
‘I will see you when cicada returns.’
The Tobacco Child
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