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The Series
The wall between our world and that of vengeful spirits has protected humanity for more than 400 years. It’s about to come crashing down. Ellie Lancaster has lived her whole life by the site of the mysterious Lost Colony of Roanoke, the Virginia settlement that vanished without a trace around 1590. Only the descendants of the two men who banished the spirits of an enemy tribe from the material realm know what really happened...
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Roanoke
In 1587, John White led a bedraggled group of one hundred and eighteen English men, women, and children to the New World to begin a new life. The colonists landed on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Faced with dwindling supplies and hostile Native American neighbors, White returned to England to seek aid, leaving the colony behind, along with his daughter and son-in-law—Elinor and Ananias Dare—and his newborn granddaughter...
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Characters
The Lost Colony of Roanoke disappeared because of an ancient curse created by Ananias Dare, son-in-law to Governor John White, and Manteo, Croatan Indian who was sympathetic to the English. Along with the colony, the gods and spirits of the Algonquian tribes were locked behind the gates of Popogusso—hell. Manteo and Ananias’s descendants were charged with the responsibility: Curse Keepers, guardians of gate to hell,...
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Bibliography
Sources used: “Algonquin.” - New World Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2013. “Croatan.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Feb. 2013. Web. 30 Oct. 2013. “Croatoan Word List by Scott Dawson.” Coastal Carolina Indian Center RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2013. Horn, James P. P. A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. New York: Basic, 2010. Print....
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