Gone-Away Mary

Gone-Away Mary is Book IV of this multi-award-winning series. In the midst of the Great American Awakening, 1730, Mary -- Shaman, prophetess,and seer -- experiences a vision of Mary Magdalene. Although dedicated to the welfare of the escaped Boston Almshouse residents and the Wampanoag Indians who shelter them, Mary acquiesces to the missions that the Magdalene assigns her and is gone into the future periodically -- hence her Indian sobriquet, "Gone-Away Mary". She leaves behind the love-besotted Sophie to midwife her rival's severely effective baby, as well as to search for the runaway six-year-old Lucy, hiding in a dinosaur bird's aerie. Mary assists in the transformations of the New Orleans Ursuline Convent and the Williamsburg, Virginia, Public Hospital for the Insane. Finally she distributes "Mary Messages throughout the country for others to follow in the new century.