Perhaps it's because I'm older man now (I'm a little embarassed to admit this) but I was getting a little choked up at certain points in Lake in the Clouds. I just finished the third book in Sara Donati's series (first two: Into the Wilderness, Dawn on a Distant Shore). So begins a journey that will test the strength of the Bonners' love for one another-and bring Hannah to face the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mother's people? Her determination places both her family and her heart in jeopardy, for a bounty hunter is afoot-and he is none other than Hannah's childhood friend and first love. A gifted healer, this striking young woman of two worlds finds herself in peril when a dangerously ill runaway slave is discovered near the family home and Hannah insists on nursing the outlaw. But despite a devastating personal loss, the Bonners persevere, with Hannah, Nathaniel's half-Indian daughter, working as a doctor in training. It is the spring of 1802 and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Now she takes on a new chapter in the life of Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner-as their brave and beautiful oldest daughter comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning author Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilds of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the spirited Bonner family.
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