In the seventeenth century no woman of right mind wanted to be out in the world alone.Bridget Wodehouse, the pampered daughter of minor nobility in England, is orphaned at eighteen.She is waylaid and shipped to the New World, where she is forced to marry Ahab Ward, an unloving first-comer to Plymouth Plantation. Her one dream becomes to escape with her daughter, Rachel, to a kinder world. Ship's Master Christopher Johnson helps Bridget escape, but...