
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
2015-05-05
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
A prolific popular novelist writing under the name Wenona Gilman, she turned out romantic and adventure-filled fiction for late 19th- and early 20th-century readers. Behind the pen name was Florence Blackburn White Schoeffel, a Kentucky-born writer whose stories ranged from society romance to melodrama.
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