From the Amazon review: What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured commonplace book. Brought from England on Eleanor’s fateful voyage to the New World, her book was passed down through the fifteen generations of daughters who followed as they came of age.
I was not so captivated by the book that I read it quickly. Probably my favorite part of the book was a fictional story of what happened to Eleanor Dare and her child, Virginia. The author chooses to have her meet a man who is a spy for the English in St Augustine which is a Spanish settlement in the time of Eleanor's life. He is a surgeon and is very likable. They travel down the coast and marry once they reach St. Augustine. The couple die in an epidemic but Virginia survives and is the second generation down from Eleanor.
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