Summary:

In the summer of 1587, settlers set out to Roanoke Virginia to re-start a colony to spy on the nearby Spanish colonies. The governor of this colony is John White. Coming with him are 117 other men, 17 other women, and 9 children. Among those people is Johns daughter Eleanor Dare, and her husband Ananias Dare. Eleanor is coming to the new world pregnant, with puts everyone on edge for the arrival of the baby. But no one is quite as worried as the Dares foxhound Maximus. It is his sworn duty to keep a close watch on Eleanor and Ananias, but will he be able to do that in a strange new world filled with danger?