The third novel in the Wilderness series finds the Bonner family back home in the North American frontier. A sparkling absorbing historical novel set in America at a time when the growing population in the towns clashed with the frontiersmen the adventurers & the original settlers in their attempts to regulate society as they saw it. The Bonner family easily straddle both worlds. But Hannah the oldest daughter a gifted healer training in medical studies in New York finds herself in real difficulties when she nurses & saves a runaway slave. Her actions lead her & the family into new danger as the bounty hunters are led by her childhood friend & first love & the runaway slaves escape is facilitated by one of her foster brothers. Sara Donati captures brilliantly the vigorous spirit of those willing to leave their homelands for new adventures & the conflicts between their different cultures all set in the magnificent sweep of the teeming cities & the wild countryside.