The Poiterins are a very rich, very powerful Creole family, totally without scruple. There they learn a great deal about the family that has the baby. To claim the child, Hannah, Luke, and Jennet must journey first to Pensacola. In the spring she had given birth to Luke’s son, and in the summer Jennet had found herself compelled to surrender the infant to a stranger in the hope of keeping him safe. But Jennet’s rescue, so long in coming, is not the resolution they’d hoped for.
It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke’s wife and the man who abducted her.
As the distant thunder of war threatens Paradise, Hannah may learn to live-and maybe love-again in one final act of courage, duty, and sacrifice. Far from home, Lily and Jennet will each learn the price of pursuing their dreams and the possibility of true love.īut it’s Hannah herself who must risk everything once more-this time to save Daniel, who’s been taken prisoner by the British. But on the eve of the War of 1812, an unexpected guest arrives from Scotland: It is the Bonners’ distant cousin, the newly widowed Jennet Scott of Carryckcastle. Against their better judgment, Nathaniel and Elizabeth must let him go, just as they must let his twin sister Lily, a stubborn beauty, pursue her independence in Montreal. Little does she realize that she is about to be called away to face her greatest challenge ever.Īs autumn approaches, news of the latest conflict with Britain finds the young men of Paradise-including eighteen-year-old Daniel Bonner-eager to take up arms. Yet as Hannah resumes her duties as a gifted healer among the sick and needy, she finds that she is also slowly healing herself. For their daughter has come home without her husband and without her son…and with a story of loss and tragedy that she can’t bear to tell. But Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner can see that Hannah is not the same woman as when she left. The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family’s mountain cabin in Paradise. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world. 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. For a bounty hunter is afoot-Hannah’s childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby. 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. 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 almost ten years. 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. 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.Īfter a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. 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. It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer.
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