Satucket Books in Order

Satucket is Sally Gunning's linked historical trilogy set in a Cape Cod village during the years just before the American Revolution. The books do not follow one single heroine from start to finish. Instead they move through the same community, showing how law, family, work, religion, and politics shape ordinary lives. That gives the series a broad feel. You get one village, several households, and a growing sense that private trouble and public unrest are starting to collide.

This is colonial New England seen from kitchens, wharves, weaving rooms, meetinghouses, and muddy roads, not just from famous battlefields.

The Widow's War begins with Lyddie Berry, a whaler's wife whose husband is lost at sea. Her fight is not only with grief. It is with a legal system that strips widows of power and hands control of property to male relatives. In Bound, the focus shifts to Alice Cole, a girl pushed into indentured servitude after crossing from London to the colonies. Alice's story brings class, labor, and dependence into sharper focus, while also pulling Lyddie and her household back into view.

The third book, The Rebellion of Jane Clarke, widens the lens again. Jane grows up amid a bitter local feud between the Clarke and Winslow families, then gets sent to Boston as tensions rise between colonists and British soldiers. That move gives the series a stronger political edge. The Boston Massacre is part of the backdrop, but Gunning keeps the story rooted in personal choices, divided loyalties, and the uneasy question of what truth looks like when everyone around you has already picked a side.

The linking thread is not just the village, it is the way women and young people try to make room for themselves inside systems built to keep them quiet.

Expect a tone that is serious and intimate rather than swashbuckling. These books care about spinning, sailing, lawsuits, inheritance, gossip, courtship, and the daily work that keeps a household standing. They also care about desire, resentment, shame, and stubbornness. Satucket is a place where the sea matters, family history matters, and what the neighbors think can change the course of a life. If you like historical fiction that stays close to character while still showing the pressure of bigger events, this series is a strong place to start.