After a smallpox epidemic, Jess Archarde sends her three half-Indian children north from Croatoan to Henrico, hoping that they can live safely with the English there.

Product Description: Thirteen-year-old Reis Courtney, from Surrey, is apprenticed to one Dougham Gaunse, also known as Joachim Gans, famed metallurgist of Queen Elizabeth I and the first recorded Jew in the New World. Joachim and others travel to the Virginia lands in 1585, to search for gold, silver and most valuable of all, copper, to fashion the armaments for England s war against Spain...read more

After being rescued from a pirate ship, Jess faces tests of loyalty to her Lumbee husband and Roanoke Colony

Jessabel, one of the survivors of the disappearance of the English settlers on Roanoke Island in 1587, relates how her remaining companions live with the Croatoan Indians and try to find the missing colonists

When Eleanor Dare and others go off in search of the English colonists from the Roanoke colony, Jess and her family stay behind, building a new life with the Croatoan Indians and strengthening their interconnection when Jess and her 'unqua' husband havea baby.When Eleanor Dare and others go off in search of the English colonists from the Roanoke colony, Jess and her family stay behind, building a new life with the Croatoan Indians

Fourteen-year-old Jess relates her sea voyage with other English families to Roanoke Island in 1587, their attempt to make a permanent settlement, and Jess's contact with the Croatoan Indians (view table of contents)