Showing Bound by Sally Gunning

Pub Date: 2009-03-24 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins US Alice Cole spent her first seven years living in two smoky. crowded rooms in London with her family But a new home and a better life waited in the colonies . or so her father promised-a bright dream that turned to ashes when her brothers and mother took ill and died during the arduous voyage. Arriving in New England unable to meet the added expenses incurred by their misfortunes at sea. her father bound Alice into . servitude to pay his debts By the age of fifteen. Alice can barely remember the time when she was not a servant to John Morton and his daughter. Nabby Though work fills her days. life with the Mortons is pleasant;. Mr. Morton calls . Alice his sweet. good girl. and Nabby. only three years older. is her friend. companion. and now newly married. her mistress But Nabbys marriage is not ha...