An engaging, engrossing debut. Greer Macallister, USA Today bestselling author of The Magician s Lie
Bound for a new continent, and a new beginning.
In her illuminating debut novel, Aimie K. Runyan masterfully blends fact and fiction to explore the founding of New France through the experiences of three young women who, in 1667, answer Louis XIV s call and journey to the Canadian colony.
They are known as the filles du roi, or King s Daughters young women who leave prosperous France for an uncertain...

Set amid the promise and challenge of the first Canadian colonies, Aimie K. Runyan s vividly rendered novel provides a fascinating portrait of the women who would become the founding mothers of New France.
In 1677, an invisible wall separates settlers in New France from their Huron neighbors. Yet whether in the fledgling city of Quebec or within one of the native tribes, every woman s fate depends on the man she chooses or is obligated to marry.
Although Claudine Deschamps and Gabrielle Giroux both live within the settlement, their prospects are very different. French-born...