Supporters of the wrong side after Culloden the brother & sister try to escape to America but are sold off as indentured servants at all times worried that they will be recognized as runaways. Reunited with their elder brother they decide to make a new start in America.
Elizabeth Howard (Mizner) was born in 1907 in Detroit, and spent most of her life in Michigan. Descended from a noteworthy historic family, she loved history herself and enjoyed sharing her strong sense of the past in historical novels for teenage girls.