Books like Lake in the Clouds by Sara Donati
Set in the spring of 1802 in the village of Paradise, New York, Sara Donati follows the Bonner family as they navigate the lingering effects of a typhoid epidemic and the loss of her son, Robbie. Hannah, trained as a doctor and descended from both Scots and Mohawk healers, finds herself drawn into a secret network when she meets an escaped slave, Selah Voyager, and learns of the hidden lives of the Freeman family. While her parents, Elizabeth and Nathaniel, journey through dense forests to protect Selah, Hannah embarks on a daring trip to New York City to study small‑pox vaccination and uncover the truth behind her childhood friend and former love, Liam Kirby. The novel explores the challenges of frontier medicine, slavery, and the complex position of a woman of mixed heritage confronting prejudice, superstition, and the choice between a white society and her mother's people.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Sara Donati
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