Willa is a woman caught between two worlds. Can she follow Tames-His-Horse back to the People now that she is no longer Burning Sky? And what about Neil MacGregor, the kind and loyal botanist who does not fit into in her plan for a solitary life, yet is now helping her revive her farm? In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, strong feelings against “savages” abound in the nearby village of Shiloh, leaving Willa’s safety unsure. When her Mohawk brother arrives and questions her place in the white world, the cultural divide blurs Willa’s vision. Feeling obliged to nurse his injuries, the two quickly find much has changed during her twelve-year absence-her childhood home is in disrepair, her missing parents are rumored to be Tories, and the young Richard Waring she once admired is now grown into a man twisted by the horrors of war and claiming ownership of the Obenchain land.
At the boundary of her father’s property, Willa discovers a wounded Scotsman lying in her path. together.Abducted by Mohawk Indians at fourteen and renamed Burning Sky, Willa Obenchain is driven to return to her family’s New York frontier homestead after many years building a life with the People. It will take every ounce of faith and courage Ian and Seona can muster to fight for their family and their future. But the wide-open frontier of Shiloh feels as boundless and terrifying as her newfound freedom-a place of new friends and new enemies, where deep bonds are renewed but old hurts stand ready to rear their heads. Then Ian arrives, offering a second chance Seona hadn’t dared imagine. Seona’s mother, Lily, thinks it’s time they strike out on their own. The Cameron family thinks she and Gabriel should remain under their protection. Perhaps even the hope for a new life with those he still holds dear.In Boston, Seona has taken her first tentative steps as a free woman, while trying to banish Ian from her heart. An act of kindness on the journey provides Ian the chance to obtain land near the frontier settlement of Shiloh, New York. But when tragedy leaves him alone with his daughter, Mandy, and his three remaining slaves, he decides to return north.
Determined to fully release them, Ian strives to make a life at Mountain Laurel, his inherited plantation, along with Judith, the wife he’s vowed to love and cherish. Award-winning author Lori Benton delivers a rich historical novel of faith, hope, and second chances.December 1795A year has passed since Ian Cameron reluctantly sent his uncle’s former slave Seona and their son, Gabriel, north to his kin in Boston.
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