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Into the Wilderness - Sara Donati
Into the Wilderness
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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. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers from... show more
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. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers from the very first page. When Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine 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. It is December of 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. 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. He is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. Determined 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. Much to her surprise, she clashes with her own father as well. Financially strapped, Judge Middleton has plans for his daughter--betrothal to local doctor Richard Todd. An alliance with Todd could extract her father from ruin but would call into question the ownership of Hidden Wolf, the mountain where Nathaniel, his father, and a small group of Native Americans live and hunt. As Judge Middleton brings pressure to bear against his daughter, she is faced with a choice between compliance and deception, a flight into the forest, and a desire that will bend her hard will to compromise and transformation. Elizabeth's ultimate destiny, here in the heart of the wilderness, lies in the odyssey to come: trials of faith and flesh, and passion born amid Nathaniel's own secrets and divided soul. Interweaving the fate of the remnants of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portrait of an emerging America.
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9780440338079 (0440338077)
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 758
Edition language: English
Series: Wilderness (#1)
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Merle
Merle rated it
3.0 Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
Fun historical romance/adventure. This is about as close to a romance novel as I get and I enjoyed that aspect of it (though the sex scenes began to get a little repetitive). For some reason, though it is a really long book, I expected it to mostly consist of a huge drawn out will-they-or-won't-they...
Heidi Hart
Heidi Hart rated it
2.5 Forgot to Bring the Feels
I wanted to like this much more than I actually did. It came highly recommended by a good friend from college, and I'm always sorry when friends and family recommend books to me and I end up not sharing the love. The other reason I really wanted to like this is that it's clear the author did a TON o...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
1.0 Into the Wilderness (Wilderness Saga 1)
The book had blurbs praising it from romance writers Diana Gabaldon and Amanda Quick and the trade magazine Romantic Times. Not a good sign I'd like it, if this was being marketed to those who frequent the romance aisle. The prose was more readable than most books I've read marketed as romance, even...
Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it
4.0 Into the Wilderness (Wilderness Saga 1)
It could almost be described as fanfic. This is a story of what happens to Hawkeye of Last of the Mohicans' family a few years later. This story centres around his son Nathaniel. Nathaniel has grown up straddling Native and New cultures and finding that he has more in common with native culture. ...
Read Fragment
Read Fragment rated it
A straightforward adventure and romance, INTO THE WILDERNESS was all about "What happens next?" for me. As Nathaniel and Elizabeth navigate the social minefield that is their world, I felt like the main characters were utterly open books and the villains were unpredictable black boxes. I didn't kn...
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