![]() ![]() Tanner, the father of two sons, has ‘unnatural desires’ as they put it, and Jem flames his desire like no-one else has for years. Although Tanner negotiates the indenture for Wallace, he sets his own sights on Bradley. Jem finds his indenture through one of the owners of the shipping company where Neil works, Amos Tanner, who is looking for a worker for one of the other farmers, Dan Wallace, in the inland settlement of Kennet. The only way out seems to be for Jem to sell himself into indentured service for five years to pay off the debt. With two children to support, there’s no way Meg could survive on her own without Neil. Now the creditors are knocking at the door and threatening to send Neil to debtor’s prison. Neil has taken all of their money, and borrowed more, to invest in a failed get-rich-quick scheme. They left over their father’s objections to Meg’s plan to marry Neil Iveson, and it seems daddy may have been right. She’s the only family he has after the two of them left their family in old England and immigrated to pre-revolutionary New England. James ‘Jem’ Bradley would do anything for his sister Meg. This review originally appeared at Speak Its Name. ![]()
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