Sheila Flynn DeCosse

After the Great Exile of her entire Acadian community from Canada in 1755, half of Rose's family and her boyfriend disappear. As part of their forced resettlement in colonial East Hampton, New York, the English government begins it's work to turn Rose and her Acadian family into "proper English citizens". Lonely and unable to speak her native French, Rose's situation is made worse by a vindictive Master who blames her as a French speaker for the capture and perhaps death of his son by French military forces in upstate New York.
Read Rose Alone to follow Rose's journey as she struggles to find her place and family in the new world of battling French and English Empires in America.