title: The Captain's Bride
author: Bergren, Lisa Tawn
description: THEY TRAVELED TO AMERICA IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY
  
  Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder Ramsted set out to carve a new life in a young country with their closest friends, including Kaatje Janssen, a woman seeking a new beginning for the sake of her marriage and the child growing within her; Elsa's sister Tora, a sly young vixen who knows just what she wants -- and exactly how to get it; and Karl Martensen, a man torn between his friendship for Peder and a forbidden, secret love for Elsa, a man tormented by emotions that threaten to ruin them all.
  
  From the gentle hills of Bergen, Norway; to the rocky coast of Camden, Maine; and across the crashing, danger-filled waves of the open sea -- experience an epic saga of perseverance and passion, faith, and fidelity.