"The Virginia Company of
London seeks one hundred willing maids for marriage to
bachelor planters of James Cittie Colony. Maids must be
young, handsome, and honestly educated."
Having read this promising broadside, Modesty Brown flees
from arrest in London for the safety of married bliss in the
New World. At 26, she might not be young, nor handsome, and
most certainly not honest. But educated, she is. Upon her
arrival in Jamestown, the saucy wench is accused of
witchcraft by a ruthless nobleman – and it’s either burn at
the stake or wed a savage.
In buckskins and a breechclout, Mad Dog Jones is certainly
the savage – and he abhors the thought of a wife or family –
or anything else that would remind him of his tortured past.
In the virgin forests of the newly found colony, Mad Dog
regards the tainted pub wench Modesty as the savage. Yet
their savage passions for one another cannot be denied by
night. And by day each is determined to be rid of the other
. . . even if it means for Mad Dog gambling off the
indentured contract of his wife, Modesty; even if it means
for Modesty killing off her master, Mad Dog.
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