Perhaps the brawling colonies would have been safer for a plainer girl, onemore demure and less accomplished in language and manner. But CharityWoodstock was gloriously beautiful with pale golden hair and topaz eyes andshe was headed for trouble. She was accused of witchcraft by the man who hadattacked her. She was whisked from the stake by a highwayman in whose armsshe found joy but no sanctuary. Fate flung her from the manor of a Dutchpatroon to the simple hut of a Quaker, from a pirate ship to plantation.Beauty might have been her downfall, but Charity Woodstock had a recklesspassion to live and a fine determination to give herself only for love. Shewould challenge this new world and win.