![]() However, as they are more side plots I am not going to go into detail about them with this review. ![]() There are many more adventures of course. When he decides to fight on the American side of the war for the battle of New Orleans, she engages on as a doctor to be with him. She falls sick in New Orleans and loses touch with everyone until gaining the help of a dashing man who is half brother to a doctor she studied under. To go along with this, Hannah Bonner has joined her brother in helping to rescue Jennet and her son. Jennet steals him away and must hide in the city with some old friends until they can escape safely. There is a snag however, in that the man who took the child, and his grandmother are determined to keep him. This child was sent away for its safety and they must retrieve it before they can go back home. The book opens with her being rescued and we learn that she has borne a child to Luke in the time she has been away. We are shown a continuation of what happens when Luke Bonner's wife to be is kidnapped and taken south. Queen of Swords takes place roughly a year after the last book. It is at the end of this novel that Jennet is kidnapped and forced to go South. The fight between the British and Americans have started and she and Hannah go undercover to rescue Hannah's brother from his captivity by the British. The fourth book brings Jennet from England to America so that she can woo Luke Bonner. Later on down the road the story focuses more on Hannah, Nathaniel's daughter from his first marriage and her efforts to be a doctor in a time that is not very appreciative of her talents. Next, they journey to Scotland when their twins are kidnapped and have a wild time trying to rescue them. She falls in love with rugged Nathaniel Bonner and elopes with him in an attempt to restore some property to its rightful owners. As a linguistics graduate I am much familiar with her work there, and it does a lot to explain why the accents and "voices" of these characters are so accurate in these works.Īs a bit of a recap (and possible spoiler for the previous books) we are first introduced to Elizabeth, a spinster teacher from England who has come to New York to teach the children there. I have to say I was quite shocked that Rosina Lippi-Green was actually Sara Donati. The fifth in the Into the Wilderness series by Sara Donati, it was only this book that I learned the authors real name. That being said, I do think, overall, that I enjoyed it. It took me a long time to warm up to this book. With Ben Savard's guidance, allies are drawn from every segment of New Orleans's population and from Andrew Jackson's army, now pouring into the city in preparation for what will be the last major battle of the War of 1812. Jean-Benoit Savard, the great-grandson of French settlers, slaves, and Choctaw and Seminole Indians, is the one man who knows the city well enough to engineer the miracle that will reunite the Bonners and send them home to Lake in the Clouds. Savard's half brother who offers her real hope. Savard and his wife who save Hannah's life, but Dr. Sure that all is lost, and sick unto death, Hannah finds herself in the care of a family and a friend from her past, Dr. Plans that go terribly awry, isolating them from each other in a dangerous city at the worst of times. Careful plans are made as the Bonners set out to find and reclaim young Nathaniel Bonner. ![]() New Orleans is a city on the brink of war, a city where prejudice thrives and where Hannah, half Mohawk, must tread softly. The matriarch of the family has left Pensacola for New Orleans and taken the child she now claims as her great-grandson with her. The Poiterins are a very rich, very powerful Creole family, totally without scruple. There they learn a great deal about the family that has the baby. To claim the child, Hannah, Luke, and Jennet must journey first to Pensacola. In the spring she had given birth to Luke's son, and in the summer Jennet had found herself compelled to surrender the infant to a stranger in the hope of keeping him safe. But Jennet's rescue, so long in coming, is not the resolution they'd hoped for. It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke's wife and the man who abducted her.
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