Author Lori Benton's beautifully descriptive writing and love of subject allow her readers to walk in the footprints of the past. The American Frontier of the eighteenth century is a rich source of amazing factual events and fascinating folk history. Falling in love was never part of the plan. Gaining the freedom she longs for will mean running yet again, to the most unlikely refuge imaginable-the Cherokees, a people balanced on the knife edge of war.īut the biggest complication may prove to be Tamsen’s growing bond with her knight in greasy buckskins, Jesse Bird. With her pursuers ever nearing, the region in turmoil, neighbors grown suspicious of her presence, Tamsen’s safety is soon put in greater jeopardy. Chaos reigns, thwarting Tamsen and Jesse’s hastily cobbled plan to keep her safe. Across the mountains the State of Franklin has been declared, yet many settlers remain loyal to North Carolina. Trouble awaits in the form of a divided frontier community. Trouble pursues, as the two men intent on seeing her recovered prove relentless in their hunt. Western North Carolina, 1787 To escape a threatening stepfather and an unwanted marriage, Tamsen Littlejohn enlists the aid of Jesse Bird, a frontiersman she barely knows, to spirit her away from Morganton, North Carolina, west beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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