On a warm June morning in 1727, Harvard University professor Benjamin Morgan was killed on the road to Roxbury. His children - the cute prankster Jared, the wayward and straightforward Priscilla, the smart but selfish Philip - cannot reach mutual understanding in anything. Benjamin's widow, Constance, suffers so much from loneliness that she is unable to restore harmony in the house. Before the brothers and sister get closer and understand each other, they have to unravel more than one painful secret, expose a dangerous and cunning enemy, rethink their lives and go a long way from intolerance to mercy, from unbelief to faith. The novel “Colonists” is the second book in the series - written on extensive historical and ethnographic material.