Abbie Spence,
Philosophy-Lit Major
Time Travel and
Changing History
The Robinson Crusoe
Connection
About the Author and
his Next Book
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Arch Grove Press
ISLAND WOMAN: SUMMARY
Using vivid characters, lush scenes and exquisite detail, Richard Sessions makes the Spanish main of the early 1700s come to life. This impressive novel is a captivating, first person account of a young woman's ever-deepening entanglement in the harsh but romantic colonial world on the west coast of the Americas, where enmity between Spain and England is fierce.
Abbie Spence, a recent graduate of Reed College, befriends an eccentric Englishman, Gordon Bitterroot, at his Hollywood, California bookshop and soon finds herself stranded back in time against her will. Intrigue mounts as Bitterroot's plan for altering the history of the New World is revealed—a plan in which Abbie is destined to play a star role.
On a California offshore island Abbie encounters Chumash Indians and then Spaniards on patrol against foreign attackers of the magnificent Manila galleon. She is carried by events to Acapulco, Panama and to idyllic Juan Fernández Island, west of Chile, where the bitter test of wills between Abbie and the old Londoner is almost as intense as the passionate love she finds there. Suspenseful and sensual, Island Woman takes the reader on an amazing journey through history and time.
