In this sequel to the Crown & Covenant series, the Faith & Freedom Trilogy chronicles new generations of the M’Kethe family who find freedom in 18th-century America. Adventure is afoot as Old World tyrannies clash with New Words freedoms. Douglas Bond waves together fiction character with historical figures from Scottish and American History.
The M’Kethe clan finds itself in pre-Revolutionary War Connecticut weathering a storm of religious and political upheaval. Ian M’Kethe is forced to make a choice against enormous odds in the face of rising conflict between the Colonists and the French with their Indian allies. Ian makes an unlikely friendship with Watookoog, an Indian, and risks everything but gains something he thought he had lost forever. Recommended for ages 10 to 14.