When Abigail, an accused witch, disappears, she leaves sixteen-year-old Bess and her lover half-Indian Paul behind. Her short presence with them in seventeenth-century Concord inspires Bess to become a healer and Paul to seek a new life that balances his English and Indian natures with a legacy that comes full circle.

Abigail's Legacy is the sequel to At the Concord of the Rivers, the story of the relationship between mid-twentieth-century Abigail and seventeenth-century, half-Indian Paul and her difficult adjustment to the demands of her strange new life. They may be read independently.

In both novels, I have endeavored to evoke a sense of place that will transport the reader to seventeenth-century Massachusetts and the early years of the town whose enduring spirit was to be heard around the world.