The Golden Century

364 pp. "During the fifteenth-century, strong-willed Janna DeRycke was content to work in the family shipping business, while planning to follow her brothers onto the sea. But when she's ravished by a brutal aristocrat, she's forced to protect her character by marrying her childhood sweetheart. Together, Janna and Pieter Vandermill journey to the New World, where they battle starvation, wilderness, and personal demons. It is in the New World that Janna builds her glorious future and realizes the love she and Pieter have carried within themselves since the very beginning."