Strawberry Moon (The Light and Shadow Series)

STRAWBERRY MOONIn 1630s Massachusetts—a world of brutal winters, fragile alliances, and rising violence—Sarah is caught between the two identities the colony refuses to let her hold at once.When Puritan soldiers destroy Merrymount and seize her English father, she is forced into her mother’s Massachusett village, where she is both welcomed and quietly set apart. To one world she is Sarah. To the other, Kimi. In neither does she fully belong.Across the river, John Whipple arrives from England as an indentured servant, bound to labor under harsh authority in a land that offers him no standing—only survival.When smallpox and a hurricane bring their lives into the same fragile world, Sarah and John form a bond that neither English law nor Indigenous expectation can accept. But in a colony defined by fear, purity, and rising violence, even small connections carry consequences.As the Pequot War erupts and the world around them fractures into brutality, both are forced to confront what survival demands—and what belonging costs.Separated by circumstance and shaped by loss, each must decide whether identity is something inherited… or something chosen. Read more