This is an auction for FIRE ALONG THE SKY by Sara Donati.

"Donati continues the saga of the valiant Bonner family, last seen in 2002's Lake in the Clouds, in this epic starring four formidable women. It's 1812, and Elizabeth Bonner - teacher, crusader and second wife of hunter/trapper/farmer Nathaniel - is still living in a mountain cabin above the village of Paradise in upper New York State. With her is her restless, independent daughter, Lily, whose plans to study art in England were dashed by the beginnings of the war. Nearby in Montreal is the newly widowed Scotswoman Lady Jennet, who has come to the new world to find the man she should have married, Nathaniel's son Luke. And arriving presently is Hannah, Nathaniel's half-Mohawk daughter by his first wife; after 10 years as a healer with her mother's people, Hannah comes home to recover from a terrible personal tragedy. This saga sees Lily through one disastrous romance and then a second, tempestuous but ultimately successful one, and Lady Jennet - a charming storyteller and Tarot reader - through the American invasion of French Canada, where another Bonner son is wounded and imprisoned. Hannah embarks on a search for peace and, along with Jennet, aids the prisoners held in Canada's Nut Island stockade. This is an entertaining novel held together by the kind of family loyalties that defy cruelty, war and even fate itself."

• Publishers Weekly (US)

Very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Large format (trade) paperback 2005.

610 pages.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.95.

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