Beneath the Dark Ice [antikvár]

PROLOGUEThe Colony of Roanoke Island, 158 7Eleanor cradled baby Virginia in her arms and smiled at the little pink sleeping face. She was the first baby born on the island and the colonists were delighted by her arrival, seeing it as a good omen for the new outpost.Roanoke's late spring sunshine bathed the new mother and baby in a warm comforting blanket as Eleanor sang a soft lullaby to her snuffling infant.John White, Eleanor's father and the island's Governor, was proud of what he'd achieved. This was the golden age of colonisation for England and it looked to be another year where his homeland flexed its muscles and attemptedT