The Land of Bondage: A Romance

Told in alternating first-person narratives, the work follows Gerald, a dispossessed young noble, and Joice Bampfyld, a woman tied to a colonial plantation, as their lives are torn by inheritance disputes, abduction, and the harsh realities of bondage. The story moves between city destitution and frontier wilderness, depicting captivity, raids, and encounters with indigenous communities, while exploring betrayal, endurance, and attempts to reclaim honor and home. Interwoven legal contests, personal vendettas, and wartime confrontations drive a sequence of trials, escapes, and reckonings that gradually resolve the protagonists' fates.