![]() Ruth may be obedient to her sister's requests, but she still wants nothing to do with Isabel, refusing to even look at her, much to Isabel's disappointment. ![]() Though the couple love Ruth as if she were their own daughter, they tell her to go north with her sister and to do what she says. She has been living with an elderly slave couple and a young boy named Aberdeen since being sent south in 1776. Instead, Ruth is cold and won't even look at her sister. Now, as runaway slaves, they have already walked nearly 1,000 miles from Pennsylvania to Virginia to South Carolina in search of Isabel's younger, epileptic sister, Ruth, and dodging British and Continental patrols, armed Loyalists and bounty hunters along the way.īut when they finally find Ruth, Isabel doesn't get the reception she had been hoping for. Three years have gone by since Isabel and Curzon escaped from Valley Forge and their enslavement by the cruel, sadistic Mister Bellingham. And while Chains was told from Isabel's point of view, and Forge was told from Curzon's point of view, in Ashes the story is again narrated by Isabel. ![]() Ashes continues the story of Isabel and Curzon begun in Chains and continued in Forge, picking up the threads of their story 3 years later, beginning on June 25, 1781, and ending on November 5, 1781. ![]()
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