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Ashes trilogy book 15/19/2023 ![]() Ruth continues to reject Isabel but shows that she’s canny, kindhearted, and tough, with a special affinity for animals. The friends make an arduous journey north, beset by illness, hunger, and exhaustion. Together, the children will try to start new lives as free people. ![]() She rejects Isabel immediately, but Serafina and Walter persuade Ruth to go on the run with Isabel and Curzon, and Aberdeen accompanies them. ![]() Ruth, who has epilepsy and some degree of intellectual disability, is under the care of an old couple named Serafina and Walter and a young man named Aberdeen, and she’s adopted them as her new family. When the two find Ruth, it’s not the loving reunion Isabel hopes for. Isabel longs to see her sister and has also developed a longing for Curzon that she can’t admit, even to herself. After serving at Valley Forge, they’re travelling through the Eastern states, looking for Isabel’s little sister Ruth, who was sold away from Isabel when the two were only children. ![]() Isabel Gardener and Curzon Smith, two black teenagers who escaped slavery during the American Revolution, have been on the run together for five years. ![]()
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