Much to her surprise, she clashes with her own father as well. He is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives.ĭetermined to provide schooling for all the children of the village - White, Black, and Native American - Elizabeth soon finds herself at odds with local slave owners. And she meets a man different from any she has ever encountered - a white man dressed like a Native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his blunt honesty. It is December of 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. When Elizabeth Middleton, 29 years old and unmarried, leaves her Aunt Merriweather's comfortable English estate to join her father and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to teach school. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate listeners from the start. With well-drawn characters and an evocative love story that is intricately woven into the history of our nation's past, this extraordinary novel will enthrall readers like few others-and sweep them away to a whole other time and place.Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place.and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. With well-drawn characters and an evocative love story that is intricately woven into the rich history of our nation's past, this extraordinary novel will enthrall readers like few others-and sweep them away to a whole other time and place.Ī sweeping epic of romance and adventure, Dawn on a Distant Shore establishes Sara Donati as one of today's most gifted storytellers. But with this journey a whole new world opens up to Nathaniel and Elizabeth-and a destiny they could never have imagined awaits them.Ī sweeping epic of romance and adventure, Dawn on a Distant Shore establishes Sara Donati as one of today's most gifted storytellers. In his heart, the Mahican tribe of Hawkeye's youth is the truest kin he will ever know, just as Nathaniel will always remain loyal to the Mohawk nation.
Torn apart, the Bonners must embark on yet another perilous voyage.this time all the way across the ocean to the heart of Scotland, where a wealthy earl claims kinship with Nathaniel's father, Hawkeye. It is a struggle that threatens her with the loss of what she loves most: her children. But she soon discovers that freeing Nathaniel will take every ounce of her courage and inventiveness. Accompanied by her stepdaughter, Hannah, their wise friend Curiosity Freeman, and Runs-from-Bears, a Mohawk warrior and lifelong friend of Nathaniel's, Elizabeth journeys through the snowy wilderness and across treacherous waterways. In a desperate bid to save her husband, Elizabeth bundles her infants and sets out on the long trek to Montreal. Instead Nathaniel is imprisoned and finds himself in imminent danger of being hanged as an American spy. Nathaniel reluctantly leaves Hidden Wolf Mountain to set out for the distant city, determined to see his father freed. Word has reached them that Nathaniel's father has been arrested by crown officials in British Canada. But soon the events in Canada draw Nathaniel far away from his new family. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into their life together at the edge of the New-York wilderness in the winter of 1794 when Elizabeth gives birth to healthy twins.
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