One Day's Tale

Betsy Randall, a young wife and mother, journeys with her family from their 18th Century English home across the Atlantic, bound for her late brother’s plantation in Colonial Virginia. After a horrifying encounter with pirates, she arrives alone in a land where Europeans, Africans, and Indians are becoming a nation. Forging her way in this new world, Betsy encounters the kindness and treachery of colonials; the bravery and violence of frontiersman, soldiers, bandits and Indians; the beauty and danger of the untamed wilderness; the cruelty of slavery, and the sometimes strange intimacy between slave and master. Ultimately, One Day's Tale is the story of a woman's journey of self-discovery as she also discovers what it means to be an American.

Betsy Randall, a young wife and mother, journeys with her family from their 18th Century English home across the Atlantic, bound for her late brother’s plantation in Colonial Virginia. After a horrifying encounter with pirates, she arrives alone in a land where Europeans, Africans, and Indians are becoming a nation. Forging her way in this new world, Betsy encounters the kindness and treachery of colonials; the bravery and violence of frontiersman, soldiers, bandits and Indians; the beauty and danger of the untamed wilderness; the cruelty of slavery, and the sometimes strange intimacy between slave and master. Ultimately, One Day's Tale is the story of a woman's journey of self-discovery as she also discovers what it means to be an American.