Such Miracles and Mischiefs

Colonists come face to face with Indigenous Americans, enslaved Africans, and pirates as they struggle to build a life in North America.

Such Miracles and Mischiefs, the second book in the Cupids trilogy, adventures across the first three English colonies in the Americas—Newfoundland, Virginia, and Bermuda—and highlights women’s colonial experience. After pirates attack the Guy family’s plantation near Cupids, Nancy Ellis needs all her ingenuity to survive in the hands of lawless men. Ned Perry crosses the ocean to find her, while Nancy’s employer and friend, Kathryn Guy, must rebuild a home on the harsh shores of the New Found Land.

AUTHOR

Trudy J. Morgan-Cole

Trudy J. Morgan-Cole is a writer and teacher in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Her historical novels include By the Rivers of Brooklyn, Most Anything You Please, and A Roll of the Bones, the first volume of the Cupids Trilogy. She is fascinated by the forgotten or ignored stories of women in history and loves to create fiction out of the gaps history leaves behind. Trudy is the mother of two young adults and lives in Rabbittown, in the heart of St. John’s, with her husband, Jason, and the world’s most beautiful rescue dog.

Reviews

“A geographical event, this novel is a special opportunity and one that Newfoundlanders will be particularly proud of.”
– Atlantic Books Today

“Morgan-Cole chose ‘to honour the legend’ by including her [Sheila NaGeira Pike] in the trilogy. […] Presenting these characters in the volume and authenticity they deserve, while not shying away from contemporary European attitudes towards them…”
– The Telegram