Book One of a series of six or seven, Into The Wilderness begins in 1792 in a remote mountain village in the New York wilderness. Elizabeth Middleton, aged 29, has come to join her father, Judge Middleton, in the town of Paradise to teach school.
She meets Nathaniel Bonner, a Mohawk Indian, whose people reside peacefully in the area, and they soon fall in love. The villain in the piece is Richard Todd, the town doctor, who the Judge has "arranged" to marry Elizabeth, so he can pay his many debts. Once Elizabeth discovers this plan, she must decide whther to comply or deceive her father into thinking she will marry Todd, when in fact she runs away with Nathaniel.
I realize this all sounds rather cheesy, but it is well-written, and is a good story, with many characters, lots of conflicts, secrets, villains, heroes, sages, etc. I plan to read the other books,too, probably with some time in between- you could get a little weary of it all. I like that the author covers a great deal of historical information by character and situation, instead of those long pages of description by such writers as James Michener.
I discovered this series in the library- the latest novel was on the "recent" shelf, so I went looking for the others. It's always fun to discover a new author who tells a good story. I had been thinking of starting the Diana Gabaldon series, but I don't like the time travel aspect, and she gets a bit wordy. These are entertaining and they don't drag, even at 691 pages!
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