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Keepers of the Ring #4
Rehoboth
Mojag and Aiyana Bailie are too Indian to be trusted by the English, and too English to know the ways of the Indians.
Daniel Bailie moves his family to Rehoboth, and arranges for his daughter Aiyana's employment in a local home. Meanwhile Mojag longs to minister among the unsaved Indians.
But King Phillip’s War is coming. Soon Mojag and Aiyana are in danger from both the English and the Indians, and both will struggle to hold on to their faith---and their very lives.
Daniel Bailie moves his family to Rehoboth, and arranges for his daughter Aiyana's employment in a local home. Meanwhile Mojag longs to minister among the unsaved Indians.
But King Phillip’s War is coming. Soon Mojag and Aiyana are in danger from both the English and the Indians, and both will struggle to hold on to their faith---and their very lives.
356 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1997
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About the author
Angela Elwell Hunt
271 books1,974 followersChristy-Award winner Angela Hunt writes for readers who have learned to expect the unexpected in novels from this versatile author. With nearly six million copies of her books sold worldwide, she is the best-selling author of more than 165 works ranging from picture books (The Tale of Three Trees) to novels.
Now that her two children are grown, Angie and her husband live in Florida with Very Big Dogs (a direct result of watching Turner and Hooch and Sandlot too many times). This affinity for mastiffs has not been without its rewards--one of their dogs was featured on Live with Regis and Kelly as the second-largest canine in America. Their dog received this dubious honor after an all-expenses-paid trip to Manhattan for the dog and the Hunts, complete with VIP air travel and a stretch limo in which they toured New York City.
Afterward, the dog gave out pawtographs at the airport.
Angela admits to being fascinated by animals, medicine, psychology, unexplained phenomena, and “just about everything” except sports. Books, she says, have always shaped her life— in the fifth grade she learned how to flirt from reading Gone with the Wind.
Her books have won the coveted Christy Award, several Angel Awards from Excellence in Media, and the Gold and Silver Medallions from Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Award. In 2007, her novel The Note was featured as a Christmas movie on the Hallmark channel. Romantic Times Book Club presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, and American Christian Fiction Writers bestowed the same award in 2019.
In 2006, Angela completed her Master of Biblical Studies in Theology degree and completed her second doctorate in 2015. When she’s not home reading or writing, Angie often travels to teach writing workshops at schools and writers’ conferences. And to talk about her dogs, of course.
Now that her two children are grown, Angie and her husband live in Florida with Very Big Dogs (a direct result of watching Turner and Hooch and Sandlot too many times). This affinity for mastiffs has not been without its rewards--one of their dogs was featured on Live with Regis and Kelly as the second-largest canine in America. Their dog received this dubious honor after an all-expenses-paid trip to Manhattan for the dog and the Hunts, complete with VIP air travel and a stretch limo in which they toured New York City.
Afterward, the dog gave out pawtographs at the airport.
Angela admits to being fascinated by animals, medicine, psychology, unexplained phenomena, and “just about everything” except sports. Books, she says, have always shaped her life— in the fifth grade she learned how to flirt from reading Gone with the Wind.
Her books have won the coveted Christy Award, several Angel Awards from Excellence in Media, and the Gold and Silver Medallions from Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Award. In 2007, her novel The Note was featured as a Christmas movie on the Hallmark channel. Romantic Times Book Club presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, and American Christian Fiction Writers bestowed the same award in 2019.
In 2006, Angela completed her Master of Biblical Studies in Theology degree and completed her second doctorate in 2015. When she’s not home reading or writing, Angie often travels to teach writing workshops at schools and writers’ conferences. And to talk about her dogs, of course.
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April 14, 2011
An excellent book in the six-book serier. I would love to own them.
September 16, 2025
This is the fourth book out of the Keepers of the Ring five book series by Angela Elwell Hunt. It was published from 1996 to 1998 and is about the interactions between the English and the Native Americans as colonies were established. They are full of historical people and facts.
I really enjoy these books, but find parts of them difficult to read. I love the characters and, as you can guess, bad things happen to them. Would it be good historical fiction if it didn't? Hunt's writing is clean, faith-filled and hopeful, but not without real struggles of real people. Rehoboth continues to follow the Bailey family as they search for individual peace as well as desiring national peace. If you love historical fiction and want a different time period than WWII you might want to try this series.
Mojag and Aiyana Bailie are too Indian to be trusted by the English, and too English to know the ways of the Indians.
Daniel Bailie moves his family to Rehoboth, and arranges for his daughter Aiyana's employment in a local home. Meanwhile Mojag longs to minister among the unsaved Indians.
But King Phillip’s War is coming. Soon Mojag and Aiyana are in danger from both the English and the Indians, and both will struggle to hold on to their faith---and their very lives.
I really enjoy these books, but find parts of them difficult to read. I love the characters and, as you can guess, bad things happen to them. Would it be good historical fiction if it didn't? Hunt's writing is clean, faith-filled and hopeful, but not without real struggles of real people. Rehoboth continues to follow the Bailey family as they search for individual peace as well as desiring national peace. If you love historical fiction and want a different time period than WWII you might want to try this series.
Mojag and Aiyana Bailie are too Indian to be trusted by the English, and too English to know the ways of the Indians.
Daniel Bailie moves his family to Rehoboth, and arranges for his daughter Aiyana's employment in a local home. Meanwhile Mojag longs to minister among the unsaved Indians.
But King Phillip’s War is coming. Soon Mojag and Aiyana are in danger from both the English and the Indians, and both will struggle to hold on to their faith---and their very lives.
June 4, 2018
I have now finished the entire series, albeit out of order, and am stunned at this author's ability to put together a riveting saga full of historical research and biblical study, yet ripe with the deepest levels of faith, hope, and love. This fourth book in the series was not as enjoyable to read as the others because of the philosophical content that caused me to examine my own attitudes, but I learned so much about part of our nation's history that I had never heard until now. I also find over and over again that even fiction written decades ago is shockingly relevant to issues we face today. This is what good Christian historical fiction is supposed to do. #maryrowlandson #notalwayshappyendings
July 15, 2018
Wow
Another masterly crafted historical epic. Loved the time, place, adventure, danger and resolution and the romance, loyalty, integrity and Christian message. Going for the last of this ( The Keepers of the Ring) series. I have loved one after the other. Rich wordsmith here with poetic visions that put you right in the center of it! Excellent in every way!!! She gets the spiritual so accurate.
Another masterly crafted historical epic. Loved the time, place, adventure, danger and resolution and the romance, loyalty, integrity and Christian message. Going for the last of this ( The Keepers of the Ring) series. I have loved one after the other. Rich wordsmith here with poetic visions that put you right in the center of it! Excellent in every way!!! She gets the spiritual so accurate.
July 15, 2017
Historical fiction at its best
This is book 4 of the series, and is as spell binding as the first page of the first book. What a wonderful accounting of the Puritans and the Native Americans in the 17th century in the Northeast. I highly recommend the series to anyone who enjoys American historical fiction.
This is book 4 of the series, and is as spell binding as the first page of the first book. What a wonderful accounting of the Puritans and the Native Americans in the 17th century in the Northeast. I highly recommend the series to anyone who enjoys American historical fiction.
May 12, 2017
Sad and Heavy Cost
It is still hard to grasp the cruelty of the English towards the Native Americans. The next two centuries didn't serve the no Europeans any better. A good book to try to put yourself in the story.
It is still hard to grasp the cruelty of the English towards the Native Americans. The next two centuries didn't serve the no Europeans any better. A good book to try to put yourself in the story.
January 22, 2020
I love this series! Each book gets better. But this was the hardest book to read with all the war scenes. I would kind of scrim over the bad parts but they had to be put in to know what these people went through. Once again the characters are fictitious but the stories follow a true timeline.
May 31, 2022
Excellent read!
I love this series! Well developed details make me feel like I am there! Bonded with the characters and the setting is historical. Can't wait to finish the last book!
I love this series! Well developed details make me feel like I am there! Bonded with the characters and the setting is historical. Can't wait to finish the last book!
October 17, 2022
The Indian characters were confusing, as I couldn't keep them all straight. The first three books in the series were phenomenal, as I had time to sit and devour them quickly. This book, not so much. I think I was too busy to thoroughly enjoy the book. I was disappointed, but more so in myself.
December 23, 2020
Awesome
As always this book takes you back in time to a place very near my heart my heritage my birthplace my blood with gusto and wild emotion
As always this book takes you back in time to a place very near my heart my heritage my birthplace my blood with gusto and wild emotion
September 3, 2025
Great ending!
This has been a wonderful series bringing light to a dark time of history. Very informative and gripping! The characters memorable
This has been a wonderful series bringing light to a dark time of history. Very informative and gripping! The characters memorable
December 4, 2025
I am struck by how thoroughly researched and in depth this series is and appreciate that the characters do not have 21st century mentalities, even though it makes me uncomfortable.
January 15, 2026
Each of the first four books in this story have been slow reads, but this book was ponderous with so many atrocities, tribes, villages, and such. I may not finish the series.
March 16, 2017
Love this series!
August 3, 2017
A review from my old blog (of the whole series) ...
Oh. My. Word. This series is incredible! Of Hunt's three historical series I have to say that this is my absolute favorite.
This series explores the relationship between the English and Indian during the colonial period. The main characters, after the first book, are for the most part of biracial which allows Hunt to explore the choices that such a person would have to face... whether to be English or to be Indian.
At the same time some of the most profound issues Hunt dealt with had to do with whether worship has to have a certain look, whether the worship habits of the Indian or of the Puritan had to be exclusive for the sake of the other.
In addition to the serious issues Hunt also weaves several beautiful love stories, the most poignant being that of Fallon and Gilda in the second book, Jamestown. I have to admit though that I have not read the fifth and last book of the series and thus, though I do not expect to, may find a more beautiful love story.
I strongly recommend this book for any lover of history and excellent writing.
Oh. My. Word. This series is incredible! Of Hunt's three historical series I have to say that this is my absolute favorite.
This series explores the relationship between the English and Indian during the colonial period. The main characters, after the first book, are for the most part of biracial which allows Hunt to explore the choices that such a person would have to face... whether to be English or to be Indian.
At the same time some of the most profound issues Hunt dealt with had to do with whether worship has to have a certain look, whether the worship habits of the Indian or of the Puritan had to be exclusive for the sake of the other.
In addition to the serious issues Hunt also weaves several beautiful love stories, the most poignant being that of Fallon and Gilda in the second book, Jamestown. I have to admit though that I have not read the fifth and last book of the series and thus, though I do not expect to, may find a more beautiful love story.
I strongly recommend this book for any lover of history and excellent writing.
August 21, 2016
History often repeats itself
I often thought as I read this fantastic book that History often repeats itself. I'm saddened by the way the English who arrived in this new land treated the native people. The English came for many reasons, one of which was to teach the natives about God. But in their religious fervor they forgot that God first meets people where they are. He doesn't say that you must first clean yourself up. If that were the case, none of us would ever be clean enough.
There are so many fantastic things to like about this book. The characters are realistic and you really feel like you are part of the story. The history woven in is detailed and well researched. I've enjoyed this entire series and looking forward to reading the last book in the set next.
I often thought as I read this fantastic book that History often repeats itself. I'm saddened by the way the English who arrived in this new land treated the native people. The English came for many reasons, one of which was to teach the natives about God. But in their religious fervor they forgot that God first meets people where they are. He doesn't say that you must first clean yourself up. If that were the case, none of us would ever be clean enough.
There are so many fantastic things to like about this book. The characters are realistic and you really feel like you are part of the story. The history woven in is detailed and well researched. I've enjoyed this entire series and looking forward to reading the last book in the set next.
August 30, 2016
Series Review:
Full of history, this series is very unique in its setting. I have read very few books (Christian or not) about pre-Revolutionary America and I cannot think of a book-outside of the Dear America series-about the Native American/settlers war and conflicts. Covering Roanoke, Jamestown, Hartford, King Philip's War, and the early slave trade, Angela Hunt wrote a very unique series.
I enjoyed some books in the series more than others, and found some parts of the series redundant and far-fetched, but I was fascinated by the history.
Full of history, this series is very unique in its setting. I have read very few books (Christian or not) about pre-Revolutionary America and I cannot think of a book-outside of the Dear America series-about the Native American/settlers war and conflicts. Covering Roanoke, Jamestown, Hartford, King Philip's War, and the early slave trade, Angela Hunt wrote a very unique series.
I enjoyed some books in the series more than others, and found some parts of the series redundant and far-fetched, but I was fascinated by the history.
November 8, 2013
This is book #4 of the "Keepers of the Ring" series by Angela Elwell Hunt. I have learned a great deal about the treatment of the American Indians in North Carolina, Virginia, and New England in these books. They were treated cruelly as the English took their lands, their homes, and eventually most of their lives. And it shows how true Christianity holds during some of life's most traumatic & dramatic times. I highly recommend this book and this series.
March 9, 2015
Very good book, Its a novel but learned a lot of history about Indians and Puritans and how and why the Indians lost to the English. Ignorance and cruelty. Misunderstanding of cultures on both sides.
October 2, 2015
The setting of this book is during the King Philip's war, with an emphasis on evangelism. Perhaps the church today is somewhat like the Puritans, "an exclusive society for the saints & their children." The unsaved today need to hear of Christ & His power, much like the Indians did in this book.
January 20, 2016
I really like her books.. gave it a 4 because it has more graphics in it than I care for. Still gave it a 4 star because it is factual fiction and she is a good writer.
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