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Gallows Hill

✍ Scribed by Lois Ruby

Book ID
112402789
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Year
2023
Tongue
en-US
Weight
1019 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781728493930

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Salem, Massachusetts - 1692

Thomas is marked as an outcast the moment he steps off the ship from England. As a Quaker, he's outnumbered and distrusted by Salem's Puritans. And as an orphan without any useful skills, he has nowhere to live and no way to earn his keep. In a stroke of luck—perhaps good, perhaps not—he's taken in by the aged widow Prudence Blevins, who's rumored to be a witch.

Patience has tried all her life to be a good Puritan—obedient to God and to her elders—and all her life, she has come up short. But her orderly world is upended when her younger sister, Abigail, falls victim to a mysterious affliction. The same torments have stricken other Salem girls, who claim they're being bewitched by servants of the Devil. Soon the girls, including Abigail, begin accusing neighbors of witchcraft.

As the community becomes consumed by suspicion and fear, Thomas and Patience search for...

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