num_pages: 288
description: From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos comes the riveting story of a strangers arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth Massachusettsand a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky unfamiliar soil Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living trading and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship bearing new colonists appears on the horizon one summer morning Anglican outsiders have had enough.With gripping immersive details and exquisite prose TaraShea Nesbit reframes the story of the pilgrims in the previously unheard voices of two women of very different status and means. She evokes a vivid ominous Plymouth populated by famous and unknown characters alike each with conflicting desires and questionable behavior.Suspenseful and beautifully wrought Beheld is about a murder and a trial and the motivationspersonal and politicalthat cause people to act in unsavory ways. It is also an intimate portrait of love motherhood and friendship that asks: Whose stories get told over time who gets believedand subsequently who gets punished?
language: English
title: Beheld
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing