Widow and the Workman

 Madelaine Cooper, a young widow, owns a thriving farm in the cloistered Community of Peaceful Brethren on a distant moon. Its founder, an historian from Earth, believed only a return to a simple, pastoral lifestyle with strict male-female roles could sustain his vision of societal harmony. After her husband's death, her overbearing father-in-law steals her widow's dowry to purchase a slave, a wor...