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Seventeen-year-old Libby Kendall and her father travel from London to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1675, to serve four years as indentured servants. Unexpected events crowd the journey and first year in the New World. A few months after they arrive, her father dies, leaving her an orphan.
One February day, Indians capture Libby and the family she serves. For nearly three months, Libby lives and starves with her captors, struggling not to hate.
Libby’s captors release her near Providence, Rhode Island. Until she can return to Massachusetts, Libby takes refuge with a Quaker family. Their lives and faith impress her deeply. Reunited with the family she loves and serves, Libby finds herself at odds with the Puritan community.
She must make a choice that will change her life forever.
Libby’s Choice is a skillfully crafted novel packed with authentic details of life in the New World in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1675. Libby faces many tough challenges when she becomes an indentured servant to the Rowlandson family who are, like Libby herself, staunch Puritans.
During this engaging and fast-moving story, Libby begins to question some of the harsh beliefs of the family she has learned to love and call her own.
Libby’s Choice is a poignant reminder that twenty-first-century Christians still are bothered by differences in belief—they still at times attempt to settle discordant views with violence.
—Mary Warren, writer and pastor’s wife
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