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Delivered to New England and bound into servitude to pay for her father's debts, Alice Cole, at fifteen, may hardly recall the full time when she wasn't a slave to John Morton. His child, Nabby—only more than 3 years Alice—begins as Alice's childhood friend, nevertheless she becomes Alice's mistress, when Nabby weds. However the relationship isn't what it seems, and Alice, vulnerable by its surprise, contradicts her destinations to Ma and regulations, and new master. Impulsively stowing away on a ship to Satucket on Cape Cod, Alice thinks that she's quit her strategies and her old life behind.