Salt People of the Cloud Houses:
The Story of Sarah Rapalje
and Dutch Manhattan
Available
June 9, 2025
A coming-of-age for a frontier woman,
but also for the city that would become New York.
In 1625, the first European child born in New York was a French girl, raised among Native Americans, in a Dutch colony called New Netherland.
Sarah Rapalje is confronted with upheavals of war, navigating love and loss amid shifting allegiances.
One peril leads to another, forcing Sarah to question—are the biggest threats from the Natives, the English, or the Dutch West India Company that has failed to protect New Netherland? She must ensure the survival of her family, but at what costs?
About the Author
By day, Fawn Brokaw Doyle is a design professional, wife, and mother.
By night, she is a genealogist, historian, and novelist.
Salt People of the Cloud Houses is her debut novel.
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