Children of Liberty

Children of Liberty
Paullina Simons

From Paullina Simons who brought you the unforgettable The Bronze Horseman comes the much-anticipated Children of Liberty.“Never forget where you came from.”At the turn of the century and the dawning of the modern world, Gina sails from Sicily to Boston’s Freedom Docks to find a new and better life, and meets Harry Barrington, who is searching for his own place in the old world of New England.She is a penniless unrefined immigrant, he a first family Boston Blue-blood, yet they are hopelessly drawn to one another. Over their denials, their separations, and over time, Gina and Harry long to be together. Yet their union would leave a path of destruction in its wake that will swallow two families.

Children of Liberty

Paullina Simons

Copyright

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First published in Great Britain by Harper 2012

Copyright © Paullina Simons 2012

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Cover photograph © Aria Baro/Trevillion Images

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Source ISBN: 9780007241569

Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780007484034

Version: 2015-03-31

To my good friend Nick,

without whom this book, and many things,

might never have been

The world was all before them, where to choose

John Milton

Each of us Inevitable;

Each of us Limitless—

Walt Whitman

Contents

Cover (#u4de7b314-cd7a-5eed-ae80-ac9bb2db2306)

Title Page (#u4f4edbce-fa6c-5a12-bd90-9816d67b68c7)

Copyright (#ucd63d463-b3cf-58db-a962-f713a7cfc2a4)

Dedication (#u15a00b1d-8fbd-5ca2-96d2-838f5ea17cce)

Epigraph (#u4eb917d9-2756-5bfa-8d9d-27ea45f4f855)

Maps (#udaba21d1-5446-53fa-bf28-4295208cdd43)

Part One: The Barber’s Daughter (#uee0198ce-87f3-555c-abda-90aa01aa125e)

Chapter One: Daughter of the Revolution (#uefa4027d-ee66-5608-9f0c-6b9e81e27a86)

Chapter Two: Sons of Liberty (#ubaadcc82-a9a3-55e9-ace1-82b97f7c07da)

Chapter Three: North End (#udc53af12-ebd1-5696-b607-53a4f40dab8c)

Chapter Four: Great Expectations (#u4e45bf5e-4847-5c54-8f31-ffc3f5f3fd07)

Chapter Five: Summer Street (#u2799517f-065a-51c6-a845-0ca5a7176ca5)

Chapter Six: A Sunday in a Small Town (#ufe51deea-74de-5292-aa68-b577b0ea6e1a)

Chapter Seven: Immigrants, Debutantes, Students (#u3a8d8e4a-6fb2-58d1-a480-2b801a100fa8)

Chapter Eight: The Rewards of Mission Work (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two: The Objection Maker (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine: The Natives and the Pilgrims (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten: In the Boston Winter (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven: The Quarry (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve: Tulips (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three: Earth’s Holocaust (#litres_trial_promo)