Series: Crowning Mercy
by Author Bernard Cornwell
Book
A Crowning Mercy (2003)
Dorcas Slythe is constantly humiliated and mistreated at the hands of her Puritan family and their servants. Then she meets Toby Lazender while bathing in a nearby stream and begins to dream of a life filled with love and beauty. Forced to marry Samuel Scammell she despairs but her "Father's dea...