Maryland

Absorb and enjoy this remarkable love story of aristocrat David Carroll as Prince Charming, and Irish indented sexual servant Amelia Eliot, convicted to bear four bastard babies, becoming undoubtedly, his Cinderella. A rags to Riches love story in the colony of Maryland, America when King James II ruled Britain. This is the first of five books which proffer the family sagas and love affairs of the Protestant Carroll family, coming from Somerset and the Roman Catholic Carroll family from Yorkshire in England, settling in Maryland.. The meeting with Amelia on a small ship holding convicts and persons fleeing from persecution and poverty. David sailing to America with his Catholic cousin, Edgar Carroll, all threatened with starvation Saving Amelia's life, pitying, befriending, falling in love and marrying her. Becoming Governor, and her becoming Lady Amelia and meeting King William III and Queen Mary, when David becomes a Knight of the Bath. All happening as France wars with Britain in Europe and America, attempting to replace Catholic James II on the British Throne. Introducing many well known historical persons. John Washington, grandfather of George Washington. John Churchill who became the Duke of Marlborough. Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore, his family given Maryland by King Charles I and other members of his family with lands in Ireland. Enjoy immersing yourself in the love stories and lives of many persons thrown together in the American Colonies at the end of the 17th. Century