It wasn’t always that a positive outcome was to be expected but that you just needed to see how the characters handled themselves. I was completely captivated by this book from the start and even when these characters were struggling, the way Amy wrote the scenes, you could not help but be sucked in, wanting to know how things would be resolved. Amy does not sugarcoat it by any means and I appreciate that. This book clearly depicts just how hard life was during this time. Her characters were so richly drawn and the scenery was depicted in such a way that I could easily visualize it. I felt transported back in time and that is not always an easy feat to do in writing, especially in historical fiction, yet I feel that Amy Harmon did so with ease.

Not only was this book beautifully written, but I could feel as if I was with the characters on the trail with them. I read a lot of historical fiction, but not too many set in the United States and I have not read any set on the Oregon Trail. As soon as I saw this I knew I had to request it as my friend Ashley has been raving about her books for quite some time and I can see why.

My thoughts: This is the first book I’ve read by Amy Harmon and I know it won’t be the last. Have to make terrible sacrifices to find each other, save each other,Īnd eventually…make peace with who they are. They can’t turn back, they can’t go on, and they can’t let go. Horrific tragedy strikes, decimating Naomi’s family and separating herįrom John, the promises they made are all they have left. Heritage gains them safe passage through hostile territory only to comeīetween them as they seek to build a life together. The journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger inīut life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear,Īnd death. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with

Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her familyįor a life out West.

The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowedĪt twenty. In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, aįamily and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, Narrator: Lauren Ezzo, Shaun Taylor-Corbett

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