The Salty Rose: Alchemists, Witches & A Tapper In New Amsterdam

by Beth M Caruso

Overview

Marie du Trieux, a tavern keeper with a salty tongue and a heart of gold, struggles as she navigates love and loss, Native wars, and possible banishment by authorities in the unruly trading port of New Amsterdam, an outpost of the Dutch West India Company. In New England, John Tinker, merchant and assistant to a renowned alchemist and eventual leader of Connecticut Colony, must come to terms with a family tragedy of dark proportions, all the while supporting his mentor's secret quest to find the Northwest Passage, a desired trading route purported to mystically unite the East with the West. As the lives of Marie and John become intertwined through friendship and trade, a search for justice of a Dutch woman accused of witchcraft in Hartford puts them on a collision course affecting not only their own destinies but also the fate of colonial America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733373807
Publisher:	Lady Slipper Press
Publication date:	09/01/2019
Series:	Connecticut Witch Trials Trilogy , #2
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

The Salty Rose: Alchemists, Witches & A Tapper In New Amsterdam (2019) is Beth M Caruso's second novel and was inspired by the discovery of Marie du Trieux, a distant great grandmother in her husband's family tree as well as from information she gathered from previous research. Her first historical fiction novel is One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America's First Witch Hanging (2019), a book that tells the tale of Alice Young and the beginnings of the colonial witch trials. Beth is passionate to discover and convey important and interesting stories of women from earlier times.
Beth grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and spent her childhood swimming and writing puppet shows and witches' cookbooks. She studied French Literature and Hispanic Studies, earning a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cincinnati. After serving two years in the Peace Corps in northern Thailand, she obtained Masters degrees in Nursing and Public Health. Beth's other interests include aromatherapy, travel, gardening, and exploring and protecting our beautiful natural world. She lives in Connecticut with her family.

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