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Bantam
April 2003
Featuring: Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner
672 pages
ISBN: 0553582798
Paperback (reprint)
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Romance Historical
It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is
still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous
summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-
year-old son, Hannah's half brother Robbie, but they
struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins
Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth's school, and Hannah as a
doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is
descended from healers on both sides--one Scots
grandmother and one Mohawk--and her reputation as a
skilled healer in her own right is growing. After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth
and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the
mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is
looking for Curiosity Freeman--a former slave herself, one
of the village's wisest women and Elizabeth's closest
friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake
in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act
they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and
Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading
for almostten years. The Bonners will do what they must to
protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her
patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For
a bounty hunter is afoot--Hannah's childhood friend and
first love, Liam Kirby. While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous
journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to
safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different
journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the
secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that
threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about
Liam's immediate past and what caused him to change so
drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she
faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions
long avoided about her place in the world. Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she
finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will
not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the
problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to
rebound from their losses--old and new--than they find
themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a
battle that will test the strength of their love for one
another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded:
will she make a life for herself in a white world, or
among her mother's people?
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