<p>Hope Leslie is a historical romance, set in 1643, in Massachusetts Bay Colony.William Fletcher is a young Englishman who is in love with his cousin Alice, but her father forbids their love and forces her to marry another man. In despair, Fletcher decides to leave England and move to the Massachusetts. In the Bay colony, Fletcher marries and has children, when he receives word that his loving Alice and her husband have both died. By Alice's wil...