New Worlds

Show trials, torture and summary executions are rife in England as Charles II betrays his promise of tolerance and reverts to tyranny. At Fanshawe House, Angelica Fanshawe now Countess of Seacourt, strives to protect her daughter Beth and Catholic husband John Francis from a country once again on the brink of chaos. But when outlaw and idealist Abe breaks into Beth's sheltered world he jolts her into consciousness and asks whether she can stand by as the liberties won with her father's Civil War blood are destroyed.

Tensions continue to rise on both sides of the Atlantic. In Massachusetts, Ned's father, John Hawkins, dispatches him to England to avoid the King's agents.

Beth's journey to begin a life in the New World ends when her ship is wrecked on the shores of Massachusetts. Discovered by Masca, the leader of the Wawanaki tribe, Beth is taken in and recovers.