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A Light in the Wilderness
Jane Kirkpatrick

Revell
September 2014
On Sale: September 2, 2014
Featuring: Letita; Nancy Hawkins
320 pages
ISBN: 0800722310
EAN: 9780800722319
Kindle: B00KDN83S0
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Inspirational Historical

Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being, but at least they show she is free. She trusts in those words she cannot read--as she is beginning to trust in Davey Carson, an Irish immigrant cattleman who wants her to come west with him.

Nancy Hawkins is loathe to leave her settled life for the treacherous journey by wagon train, but she is so deeply in love with her husband that she knows she will follow him anywhere--even when the trek exacts a terrible cost.

Betsy is a Kalapuya Indian, the last remnant of a once proud tribe in the Willamette Valley in Oregon territory. She spends her time trying to impart the wisdom and ways of her people to her grandson. But she will soon have another person to care for.

As season turns to season, suspicion turns to friendship, and fear turns to courage, three spirited women will discover what it means to be truly free in a land that makes promises it cannot fulfill. This multilayered story from bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick will grip readers' hearts and minds as they travel with Letitia on the dusty and dangerous Oregon trail into the boundless American West.

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2 comments posted.

Re: A Light in the Wilderness

My thanks to Dot for reading this book and for her
review. Obviously, I loved this review because she
captured the heart of these women and I'm grateful for
her insights. A writer gets all sorts of reviews and this
one rewarded my read with the last line: "It is
historical fiction at its finest." These women made it
so.
(Jane Kirkpatrick 12:17pm October 30, 2014)

I hope you will continue this story telling what happens to these 3 courageous
women such a great story!!
(Rose Archer 10:54pm October 30, 2014)