A Heart Unbound

By Jen Caruso

Book Overview

In 1587, more than a hundred English colonists settled on Roanoke Island. Three years later, they were gone. They left behind an enduring mystery, and a single haunting word: CROATOAN.

But what if some of them didn't vanish at all?

When the shattered remnants of Roanoke seek refuge among their Croatan neighbors, Elizabeth Cooke glimpses the possibility of something she has never truly possessed - a life of her own choosing. Widowed after years in a brutal marriage, the young mother wants neither another husband nor another man deciding the course of her life.

Croatan warrior Ompeu, has no desire to welcome the English. Their mistaken attack on his people cost him his wife and child, leaving behind a grief hardened into anger. But when his council charges him with teaching Elizabeth's eight-year-old son the ways of the Croatan, avoiding the newcomers - and the boy's mother - becomes impossible.

As Elizabeth discovers freedom and belonging in an unfamiliar world, she begins to see the man beneath the quiet warrior's guarded exterior. In turn, Ompeu comes to admire the curious, compassionate woman claiming the right to shape her own life.

Neither is searching for love. Both have learned what it can cost.

But in a place where survival demands a new way of living, they may discover that love isn't something they are given. It's something they choose.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1736216805
• ISBN13: 9781736216804
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Genevieve Tueros
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"