Author: marthaconway

The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving runaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It’s 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort … cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue–until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist, Flora Howard, and May finds…

“Memorable” (Publishers Weekly): After her sisters are kidnapped, young Susanna sets out into the unknown to bring them home. “Hypnotic… An elegiac, hopeful historical novel” (Kirkus Reviews) set in 1806 Ohio.