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. Author Diana Gabaldon called it ‘one of those rare stories that let you breathe the air of another time, and leave your footprints on the snow of a wild, strange place.’ Now, in her second novel, this award winning master storyteller once again blends fact and fiction, and re creates her beloved characters from Into the Wilderness in an eloquent, enthralling tale of romance and adventure. Sara Donati’s debut novel, Into the Wilderness, was hailed as ‘epic in scope, emotionally intense…Īn enrapturing, grand adventure’ BookPage and ‘a captivating saga…ĭefinitely the romance of the year when it comes to transcending genre boundaries’ Booklist. His name is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as ‘Between Two Lives.’ 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. And she meets a man different from any she has ever encountered a white man dressed like a native. It is December of 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. When Elizabeth Middleton leaves England to join her father and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise in New York, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to teach school.

The novel revolves around the forbidden, incandescent affair of a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. From the opening page, the reader is transported to another world, swept away by the passions of two unforgettable lovers. Not since Diana Gabaldon has an author captured a time and a place and a love affair with so much mastery.

This beautifully wrought, passionate novel of early America is a masterpiece of romantic fiction and the debut of a remarkable new author.

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