
THE CURSE OF POCAHONTAS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
In a sun‑dappled garden overlooking a delicate rose‑bed, a frail matriarch, bound by illness and an inherited claim to the legendary Pocahontas, reflects on the weight of her lineage. Her daughter, Carlita—dark‑haired, spirited, and ever‑present among the blossoms—offers a brief respite from the house’s lingering gloom, while the older woman clings to her own sense of suffering and prophecy.
When a cryptic letter arrives, hinting at an ominous future and a family secret that has long been whispered but never spoken aloud, both women find themselves drawn into a web of dread and duty. As the estate’s shadows deepen, the fragile peace of their domestic routine threatens to unravel, urging listeners to linger over each whispered revelation and wonder whether the curse of their ancestry will finally claim them.
Language
en
Duration
~6 hours (352K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Demian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University (http://digital.library.villanova.edu/))
Release date
May 5, 2015
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
A late 19th-century novelist writing under a pen name, she turned out dramatic popular fiction with a strong taste for romance, danger, and heroines making their way in a changing world. Her surviving books still offer a lively glimpse of the era’s reading tastes.
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