02036cam a2200289 4500 544209955 TxAuBib 20220215120000.0 211214s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781646031948 PAP 19.95 1646031946 PAP 19.95 TxAuBib Angstman, Leah. Out front the following sea [BOOK] : a novel of King William's War in seventeenth-century New England / Leah Angstman. Raleigh, NC : Regal House Publishing, 2022. 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Out Front the Following Sea is a historical epic of one woman's survival in a time when the wilderness is still wild, heresy is publicly punishable, and being independent is worse than scorned--it is a death sentence. At the onset of King William's War between French and English settlers in 1689 New England, Ruth Miner is accused of witchcraft for the murder of her parents and must flee the brutality of her town. She stows away on the ship of the only other person who knows her innocence: an audacious sailor--Owen--bound to her by years of attraction, friendship, and shared secrets. But when Owen's French ancestry finds him at odds with a violent English commander, the turmoil becomes life-or-death for the sailor, the headstrong Ruth, and the cast of Quakers, Pequot Indians, soldiers, highwaymen, and townsfolk dragged into the fray. Now Ruth must choose between sending Owen to the gallows or keeping her own neck from the noose. 20220215. Survival Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Witchcraft New England Fiction. United States History King William's War, 1689-1697 Fiction. United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction. Historical fiction. War fiction. Epic fiction.