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A Settler’s Passion

JAMESTOWNE, 1611


Four years have passed since the colonists sailed up the Chesapeake to establish the first permanent English settlement in the New World.


And now… it’s barely hanging on.


Thomas Harcourt is desperate to save the settlement from ruin, but he has one major problem: Lady Elizabeth Rotheley, a woman who will do almost anything to live by her own rules, no matter what it costs her or anyone else.


As Thomas embarks on an unpopular and dangerous plan to save the colony, the two are forced to work together to protect a young tribal boy. However, when Elizabeth runs off to the Paspahegh village to avoid an arranged marriage, everything starts to fall apart, putting Thomas, and the entire settlement, in grave danger and leaving them each asking themselves…


Is honor worth the ultimate sacrifice?

Deborah Hocutt

Deborah Hocutt received her B.A. from Virginia Wesleyan University and her M.A. from Regent University. She worked as the Director of Education at the Library of Virginia and was Executive Director for the Virginia Center for the Book before moving into the field of literary management.


A Settler’s Passion is her first novel.

Austin Macauley Publishers