Inspired by the author\'s Welsh ancestors, who immigrated to Philadelphia and the North Carolina frontier in the 1750\'s, the novel follows the stirring adventures of sisters Ardath and Gwyn.
However, in hopes of finding their mother, they.
After their mother disappears in Wales and their estranged father dies in the smallpox epidemic on their voyage across the stormy Atlantic, they assert their growing maturity in Ben Franklin\'s colonial Philadelphia.
Inspired by the author\'s Welsh ancestors, who immigrated to Philadelphia and the North Carolina frontier in the 1750\'s, the novel follows the stirring adventures of sisters Ardath and Gwyn