"Deborah Leeds, a direct ancestor of the author, remains faithful to Brigid's charge to heal and is well loved and respected by her neighbors in the colonial New World. Yet ultimately she lives a lie--until a new charge by a ""Doctor of Physic"" and the birth of her 13th child force a reckoning within her and her community. And a legend is born. Sightings of her alleged progeny, now known as the Jersey Devil, continue to this day."