Title attributed to Andre Norton

Follow the Drum

-- Being the Ventures and Misadventures of one Johanna Lovell, Sometime Lady of Catkept Manor in Kent county of Lord Baltimore’s Proprietary of Maryland, in the Gracious Reign of King Charles the Second --

Bibliography ~

¯ (1942) * Published by William Penn, HC, LCCN 42023640, $2.00, 312pg ~ Cover & illustrated by K. Loute {Brick Cloth Boards, # 1218 on Front Flap}

¯ (1981) * Published by Fawcett, PB, 0-449-24434-2, $2.25, 224pg ~ cover by unknown

Synopsis ~

They followed their king into exile. And w hen they returned to claim their rightful inheritance, a cry of “Treason” sent them running for their lives. Johanna and her brother, Gerrit, had waited their whole lives for a real home in England. Instead of the military camp tents they had come to know. But on their arrival in England, Gerrit was framed for treason. Only to be sold into slavery in America. And so began Johanna’s determined odyssey to find Gerrit and to carve for him a grand home out of the Maryland wilderness where few men - and certainly no women - dare to go. With courage, hope and the help of a mysterious Irish nobleman, himself a slave. Johanna slowly discovered that it was a husband, not a brother, for whom she yearned.

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