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By Eleanor Shearer
Historical Fiction
Nova Scotia 1796. Cora, an orphan newly arrived from Jamaica, has never felt cold like this. So, when she sees a shadow slipping through the trees, Cora thinks her eyes are deceiving her. Until she creeps out into the moonlight and finds the tracks in the snow.
Agnes is in hiding. On the run from her former life, she has learned what it takes to survive alone in the wilderness. When she first spies the young woman in the woods, she is afraid. Deep among the cedars, Cora and Agnes find a fragile place of safety. But when Agnes's past closes in, they are confronted with the dangerous price of freedom and of love...