The Broken Violin

In The Broken Violin, Abigail Bosworth's life is drasticallychanged when her wealthy British family flees Philadelphia in 1769.Anti-British sentiment is growing, and the Revolutionary War will soonerupt. After Abigail's father closes his shipping business, they move to the Mohawk Valley in rural New York state and join a settlement ofGerman Palatines, which is the nationality of Abigail's mother. To blend into the small village of Stone Arabia, Abigail's father opens anapothecary like his father in England, and Abigail becomes hisassistant, an uncommon role for a woman in the late 1700s.

Though life is momentarily calm, Abigail misses a Philadelphia friend she hadhoped to marry. As the American rebellion begins growing, he joins amilitia and vanishes. With war on the horizon, Abigail's parents die in a heartbreaking accident, and she struggles to live alone. Her fearsincrease as local Mohawk folk hero, Joseph Brant, joins the British interrorizing nearby villages. As the Revolutionary War officially begins, Abigail is forced to tackle life's challenges head-on, even thepossibility of her own death. Although mocked and plotted against,Abigail prevails and finds love in the most unexpected place.