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Traces the lives of four women who struggled for civil rights and justice in seventeenth-century America.

"In this brave and passionate novel, Mary Dyer, a little-remembered woman of monumental importance to America's past, is at last given her due in fiction, nearly four hundred years after her story began. English Puritans fleeing persecution, Mary and her husband, William, arrive in the colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1635, where they are welcomed by the howling wolves in the night, the threat of Indian reprisals, and Boston governors who brutally enforce...