The Shaker's Daughter

Jane Anne Wilkes is the youngest member of a strict splinter-sect of Shakers who have settled in the Baptist held village of Church Point in the Schoharie Valley on the New York Frontier. Deep down she has always carried a flame for the dashing and enigmatic Johnathan Rook - the son of the Baptist Reverend and chief rival to her own people's claim for the hearts and minds of the surrounding population. When one evening's passion between them rages out of control, she finds herself abandoned, broken and excommunicated by her own sect who abhor all outward expression of passion - including marriage - as the work of the devil. To spare their family the shame of the connection, the Rooks fabricate a marriage between Anne and their son who has been killed while fighting His Majesty's Loyalist Militia and quickly shuttle off this unlikely widow to their son's remote cabin. The war between England and her American colonies boils over into the wild and Anne finds herself faced with a wounded enemy in the form of James Brandon - son and heir to the munition's company which is in large part supplying the men who have killed her lover and invaded her home. Despite her determination to maintain her chaste exterior, Anne finds herself drawn to this gentleman's son. Can he be the one to heal her broken heart, or will their passion and the war raging around them destroy everything she is holding onto?