Anne Douglas grows up on Mackinac Island in the straits of Lake Huron, caring for her widowed father’s younger children and promised to her childhood companion. Sent east to school and into fashionable New York and the resorts of the day, she finds her loyalties tested by love, and the later chapters turn on a killing and the trial that follows.
Woolson’s 1882 first novel, admired by Henry James, rich in the island landscape she knew from her own girlhood. Download the free EPUB.