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INTO THE WILDERNESS
by
Sara Donati

When Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, leaves
her aunt Merriweather's comfortable English estate to join her father
and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise, on the edge of
the New-York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an
unwavering purpose, to teach school. It is December of 1792 when she
arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. And she
meets a man different from any she has ever encountered, a white man
dressed like a native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his
blunt honesty. He is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people
as Between-Two-Lives. Determined to provide schooling for all the
children of the village, white, black and native American, Elizabeth
soon finds herself at odds with local slave owners. Much to her
surprise, she clashes with her own father as well. Financially
strapped, Judge Middleton has plans for his daughter, betrothal to
local doctor, Richard Todd.

An alliance with Todd could extract her father from ruin but would call
into question the ownership of Hidden Wolf, the mountain where
Nathaniel, his father, and a small group of native Americans, live and
hunt.

As Judge Middleton brings pressure to bear against his daughter, she is
faced with the choice between compliance and deception, a flight into
the forest and a desire that will bend her hard will to compromise and
transformation.

Elizabeth's ultimate destiny, here in the heart of the wilderness, lies
in the odyssey to come; trials of faith and flesh, and passion born
amid Nathaniel's own secrets and divided soul.

Interweaving the fate of the remnants of the Mohawk nation with the
destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a
complex, profound, passionate portrait of an emerging America.


Sara Donati lives with her husband and daughter in the Pacific
northwest, where she teaches creative writing and linguistic sat the
university level.

BANTAM BOOKS

New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland A Bantam Book / August 1998 All
rights reserved.

Copyright (C) 1998 by Sara Donati.