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2014 North American Book Award Winner for Best Historical Novel

Independent Publishers Book Awards Silver Medal

"An elegiac, hopeful historical novel... hypnotic." "An extraordinary new historical novel."

On a humid day

One sister is left for dead and two others are traded to a band of Wyandots for the price of a horse. Meanwhile Susanna spends the next five months searching for them. The man who loves her, Seth Spendlove, is also in pursuit after he realizes that his family was involved in the kidnapping. Part Potawatomi himself, Seth unwittingly sets off on his own quest to reclaim his heritage. He allies himself with a Potawatomi named Koman, and together they canoe through the Great Black Swamp and into enemy territory looking for Susanna.

Surviving snake bite, near-starvation, and captivity, Susanna transforms herself from the perennial younger sister to a capable young woman determined to find her family. is a riveting novel that demonstrates the true wildness of the wilderness, and the rugged perseverance of those who find themselves there.

" is the gripping story of Susannah Quiner's quest to find and recover her sisters, kidnapped as part of a plot against the family, all struggling to survive in the unforgiving wilderness that was 19th century Ohio. The interwoven tales of each sister - and Susannah's search through the vast forest and swamp that once bordered Lake Erie - are told in fast-paced prose that vividly portrays the timeless challenges and choices of life both then and now.

- Alice K. Boatwright, author of and