Indentured Bonds: The First Generation, Circa 1715 (The Lovelys' Family Tree)

A cozy and touching tale of adventure, love and survival in Colonial America... when before the Wild West there was the Eerie East.

By now, Becky expected to be married and starting a family in Boston, but she isn’t. With her fiancé dead, she's now a house servant nursing the ill wife of a Virginia tobacco plantation’s narcissistic and paranoid overseer, Charles Philpot, who now desires her. Having had enough of slavery and anyone having anything to do with it, she plans to leave for Boston to begin a new life alone.

Only ever seeing a slave in passing, William escapes his work in the mine by taking an indentured contract as an assistant overseer of a tobacco plantation's slaves. It's an unusual contract but one he feels suited for, ensuring the slaves are safe, healthy and happy, as the London agent had very much understated it. After a trying time coming to Virginia, he finds himself torn between his new tasks and his conscience while adjusting to his new environment and watching over his twelve-year-old brother, Oscar, who stowed away on the ship and is now indentured to the same plantation.

Due to his poor reputation built mostly on rumors, few from Williamsburg to Jamestown want to work for Charles Philpot, and of those who do, he wouldn’t want them to, preferring to request an indentured servant every seven years. Unlike the rumors, his reputation for getting what he wants without a care for whose feet he steps on, or worse, has been proven, and it's going to be proven again when he carries out his revenge on the tobacco plantation, its slaves, the growing bond between Becky and William, and the bond between Oscar and his pig.

ABOUT THE SERIES

Following ten generations from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, each stand-alone novel introduces old and new characters while mixing humor, romance and pathos to tell a story of life and love in America.

Volume 1) Indentured Bonds: The First Generation, Circa 1715

Volume 2) Family Bonds: The Second Generation, Circa 1735 (Release Date TBA)

Volume 3) War Bonds: The Third Generation, Circa 1755 (Release Date TBA)

OTHER WORKS BY THE AUTHOR

The Herring Cove Road Series,

Taking place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the series follows the amusing, heartwarming, heartbreaking and sometimes terrifying events that follow an introverted old Jewish man’s retirement as he reluctantly befriends a naive and lonely boy, his struggling single mother, and lastly, a boy streetwise beyond his years.

Volume 1) On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety

Volume 2) Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death

Volume 3) Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue

Volume 4) Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop

Volume 5) Still Before Herring Cove Road: The War of the Rosens (Coming January 2025)

Michael Kroft is from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and writes novels about the relationships between complex and lovable characters. Having completed his first series, Herring Cove Road, he is now working on his next, The Lovelys' Family Tree.

Current Works:

The Herring Cove Road Series:

Volume 1) On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety
Volume 2) Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death
Volume 3) Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue
Volume 4) Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop
Volume 5) Still Before Herring Cove Road: The War of the Rosens (Coming January 2025)

The Lovelys' Family Tree Series:

Following ten generations from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, each stand-alone novel introduces old and new characters while mixing humor, romance and pathos to tell a story of life and love in America.

Volume 1) Indentured Bonds: The First Generation, Circa 1715
Volume 2) Family Bonds: The Second Generation, Circa 1735 (Release Date TBA)
Volume 3) War Bonds: The Third Generation, Circa 1755 (Release Date TBA)