Anna Ulter: A Novel

by David M. Schroeder

When Boston ship line heiress Elizabeth Harrison shuns marrying her deceased father’s partner, former slaver Guillaume LeFrank, he decides to sell her. After Elizabeth is abducted aboard a company ship, she stumbles across a list of thirty other women he has sold. Determined to find the women, Elizabeth jumps from the ship and is rescued by a surfman. In that moment, Elizabeth transforms her destiny—and hopefully that of Anna Ulter, the first woman on the list. Anna Ulter has nothing else to live for but her daughter. It has been fifteen years since she moved to Boston to pursue a career on the stage, was duped by LeFrank, sold to Agustin Medina, and taken to Cuba. Now Anna is resigned to a life of slavery—until she sees a ship named Anna Ulter without any idea that Elizabeth, with help from several others, has made it her mission to save her from a horrific fate. Anna Ulter shares the sweeping historical tale of one woman’s determination to rescue thirty women enslaved by an evil man.

388 pages, Paperback

Published December 7, 2016

Reviews

[Rachael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Engaging page turner and sequel to the Surfman. Love following the characters and learning their fate. Historical fiction at its best!

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was very excited to receive my first Goodreads Giveaway and put other books aside that I was reading to read this one. I thought the story was intriguing and found some parts of the story interesting since I have never read any stories on piracy or the selling of slaves before. I felt some of the details on sailing a little cumbersome and didn't really add anything to the story so I skimmed through some of that. Because content could be skimmed over, it made my rating a little lower, as well as the typographical errors I found throughout the book - sometimes missing letters of "o" instead of "i".

[Teresa Lavender · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won this book here on goodreads. I love the whole concept of this story. The way it is set up you could do a story on each of the women mentioned. I got a bit bogged down in details and how it shifted to different characters within some of the chapters. I kept reading because I HAD to know how it ended.