The Choosing

In 1666, bribed with the King's Dowry -- an ox and a cow, a pair of chickens, two barrels of salted meat and eleven crowns in money -- Yvette journeys from her native France to find herself a husband in the New World. But how will she choose the right man from all the eager settlers who await her arrival in Montreal? Fate takes a hand when she breaks her leg, for Captain Alain Renaud refuses to allow her to participate in the ceremony of the Choosing. "You'll never be an old maid, " he reassures her. But Yvette wants to choose her own husband -- and she will certainly not choose the arrogant captain!