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Elizabeth Middleton departs her comfortable English home in December 1792 to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. A place far unlike any she has known, she meets Nathaniel Bonner—dressed in Native American attire and known by the Mohawk as Between‑Two‑Lives. Determined to provide schooling for all the village’s children, Elizabeth finds herself in conflict with local slave owners and her own family. The novel intertwines the fate of the Mohawk Nation with that of two lovers, offering a complex, passionate portrait of an emerging America.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Sara Donati
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