On a hot day in 1737 in Rotterdam, Anna König reluctantly
sets foot on the Charming Nancy, a merchant ship that
will carry her and her fellow Amish believers across the
Atlantic to start a new life. As the only one in her
community who can speak English, she feels compelled to go.
But Anna is determined to complete this journey and return
home--assuming she survives. She's heard horrific tales of
ocean crossings and worse ones of what lay ahead in the New
World. But fearfulness is something Anna has never known.
Ship's carpenter Bairn resents the somber people--dubbed
Peculiars by the deckhands--who fill the lower deck of the
Charming Nancy. All Bairn wants to do is to put his
lonely past behind him, but that irksome and lovely lass
Anna and her people keep intruding on him.
Delays, storms, illness, and diminishing provisions test the
mettle and patience of everyone on board. When Anna is
caught in a life-threatening situation, Bairn makes a
discovery that shakes his entire foundation. But has the
revelation come too late?
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