First Edition Fiction Book "Bound" by Sally Gunning, Novel Paperback, Historical

Historical novel ' Bound ' by Sally Gunning (Author of The Widows War). This is a 2009 edition (first edition for the paperback) book with 307 pages. There is a back section that has the historical background that inspired this fiction (including facsimiles of letters and documents). Beautiful cover art. From the back: ""Gunning makes the long ago feel like this very day. Elegantly, she tells bitter truths-that dignity and grace and even abiding love can flourish where it seems nothing can grow." -Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean rought to New England and bound into servitude to pay her father's not a servant to John Morton. His daughter, Nabby-only three years older than Alice-begins as Alice's childhood companion, but when Nabby weds, she becomes Alice's mistress. But the marriage is not what it appears, and Alice, endangered by its storm, defies her new master and the law, and escapes to Boston. NPK-mer,psh,eb