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| 1. "Into the Wilderness" | 2. "Dawn on a Distant Shore"
Greatly inspired by James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans", and Jane Austin's "Pride and Prejudice", Sara Donati has given us two great characters. Nathaniel is the son of Cora and Hawkeye from "The Last of the Mohicans", and Elizabeth was strongly based on Elizabeth Bennett from "Pride and Prejudice". | ||||
Coming soon
 3. "Hidden Wolf" ['01/'02 HC] -- Set 1802 in Paradise
and NYC... series storyline will focus on Elizabeth and Nathaniel in this book but will begin to shift toward Hannah's life.
4. "Untitled" [?? HC] -- To be set entirely
in Paradise.
5. "Untitled" [?? HC] -- To be set during
the beginning of War of 1812.
6. "Untitled" [?? HC] -- To be set during
the end of War of 1812 in Paradise, Lake Champlain area and New Orleans.
Sara Donati is also writing a contemporary novel.
January Magazine Interview
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"Into the Wilderness"
Bantam Books, 1998, HC Reviewed on 10/17/00 | ||
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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 had 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 a 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. | |
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"Dawn on a Distant Shore"
Bantam Books, March 2000, HC Reviewed on 11/15/00 | |||||
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Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner hace settles into their life together at the edge of the New-York wilderness in the winter
of 1794 when Elizabeth gives birth to healthy twins. But soon the events in Canada draw Nathaniel far away from his new
family. Word has reached them that Nathaniel's father has been arrested by crown officials in British Canada. Nathaniel
reluctantly leaves Hidden Wolf Mountain to set out for the distant city, determined to see his father freed. Instead Nathaniel
is imprisoned and finds himself in imminent danger of being hanged as an American spy. In a desperate bid to save her
husband, Elizabeth bundles her infants and sets out on the long trek to Montreal. Accompanied by her stepdaughter,
Hannah, their wise friend Curiosity Freeman, and Runs-from-Bears, a Mohawk warrior and lifelong friend of Nathaniel's,
Elizabeth journeys through the snowy wilderness and across treacherous waterways. But she soon discovers that
freeing Nathaniel will take every ounce of courage and inventiveness. It is a struggle that threatens her with the loss
of what she loves most: her children. Torn apart, the Bonners must embark on yet another perilous voyage... this time
all the way across the ocean to the heart of Scotland, where a wealthy earl claims kinship with Nathaniel's father, Hawkeye.
In his heart, the Mahican tribe of Hawkeye's youth is the truest kin he will ever know, just as Nathaniel will always remain
loyal to the Mohawk nation. But with this journey a whole new world opens up to Nathaniel and Elizabeth - and a destiny
they could never have imagined awaits them.
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| Books by Ellen Tanner Marsh | "The Enchanted Bride" | |
| "The Enchanted Prince" |
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"The Enchanted Bride"
Leisure Books; September 1996 Reviewed on 8/16/97 | ||
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Jewel MacKenzie had to marry to keep her home. So the independent beauty decided she would marry Tor Cameron. Tor, being a convict, would be grateful to be free and he wouldn't be able to challenge her authority. Only problem, Tor isn't a simple convict. When his past comes back to haunt him, Jewel and Tor must come to terms with their love. | |
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"The Enchanted Prince"
Leisure Books; June 1995 Reviewed on 8/16/97 | |||||
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Conner MacEowan loved to bet. Taking the latest offered by his friends, to dress like a beggar
and woo and marry Gemma Baird. Thinking he had everything under control Conner was in for an unexpected snag.
Gemma isn't about to marry anyone unless there's love. Well, you can guess the two of them are forced to wed, and
Gemma, still under the impression Conner's a beggar, is forced to live in a scottish cottage. When everything comes
out, will Gemma and Conner's love survive?
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