When a young mother in desperate need of help forces the obstetrician to face the oath she took to become a doctor, she doesn’t know what to do. Meanwhile, Sophie faces her own obstacles. When Anna comes across four kids as a result of her work and finds out that they’ve lost everything– just like her– she’s faced with a choice about what to do to help these vulnerable children. Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie have graduated from medical school for women, and they’re treating the people of the city. So much is happening and the city is being built up with changes happening in the form of the nearly-complete Brooklyn Bridge and so much more. This novel is set in 1883 and it focuses on NYC in a time of poverty, change, and splendor. Both female doctors living in New York in the nineteenth century, this story focuses on the power of love and courage and how it can transcend many of life’s obstacles. It is an epic fictional novel that focuses on the two main characters. This book marks the first book released under this name in six years. This was followed by Fire Along the Sky in 2004, Queen of Swords in 2009, and the release of the sixth novel in the Wilderness series three years after that with The Endless Forest.ĭonati is also the writer of the standalone fiction novel, The Gilded Hour. Sara Donati came out with four more books in the series, that continued on with the dynamic release of the third Wilderness novel, Lake in the Clouds. With such a good reception, Donati began writing the sequel and the follow-up novel came out in 2000. It is titled Into the Wilderness and was released in 1998. The debut novel in the series was also the first ever published under her pen name. Her family consists of her loving husband, their daughter, and a variety of pets.ĭonati is the author of the Wilderness series. She is also a best-selling author perhaps best known for her exciting Wilderness series of novels.Īn authentic native of Chicago, Sara Donati (or Rosina Lippi) lives with her family somewhere in between the area of Bellingham Bay as well as the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest. It is also the pen name of Rosina Lippi, who uses the name Donati for her novels. “Epic in scope, emotionally intense.Sara Donati is an American author of fiction. “Epic in scope, emotionally intense.” - BookPage Exemplary historical fiction.” - Kirkus Reviews “A beautiful tale of both romance and survival…Here is the beauty as well as the savagery of the wilderness and, at the core of it all, the compelling story of the love of a man and a woman, both for the untamed land and for one another.” -Allan W. This book delivers on that promise.” -Amanda Quick “Each time you open a book you hope to discover a story that will make your spirit of adventure and romance sing. I can think of no better adventure than to explore the wilderness in the company of such engaging and independent lovers as Elizabeth and her Nathaniel.” -Diana Gabaldon Into the Wilderness is one of those rare stories that let you breathe the air of another time, and leave your footprints on the snow of a wild, strange place. “My favorite kind of book is the sort you live in, rather than read. Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati’s compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portait of an emerging America. Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, Elizabeth soon finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as with her own family. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered-a white man dressed like a Native American: Nathaniel Bonner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty. Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati’s epic novel sweeps us into another time and place.
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