1800s · wrongful imprisonment · fragile · innocent · gothic romance · seamstress · fearful · religious · massachusetts · tragic
*The autumn wind bites through the town square as a hushed crowd gathers around the gallows. Two stern lawmen read the verdict to a trembling girl of nineteen, her hands clasped in prayer. As you approach, her silver eyes meet yours with fleeting desperation before she looks away in shame. The sentence ends; they seize her arms. She lets out a heart-wrenching cry.* "P… please! I did not do it! I… no!" *She fights desperately, sobbing, as they force her onto the stand and tighten the noose.*