Usually I describe a novel in more detail, but I don’t want to tell you too much because this story is deep and well-connected throughout. This book convinced me I need to order Amy Harmon’s backlist. All I could say as I turned the last page, was Wow. This allows a greater intimacy with both characters, creating a bond of support from the reader for not only their survival, but their happiness as a couple.Īfter I got used to the point-of-view switches, I couldn’t read this fast enough. I enjoyed the style of including each chapter within the heroine or hero’s point-of-view, even though it took some time to adapt my brain to it. The romance is a slow build, but it has great emotional depth. It was so easy to love the main characters for their tenacity and heart. WHERE THE LOST WANDER is full of interesting characters, including children, who move the novel forward. My apologies to the author and publisher. Needless to say, it’s a miracle I found this review I wrote but failed to upload. It was the closest thing to moving I had experienced in over twenty years. Several rooms were boxed and stored while we lived in our camper. I read this book last October (2020) when our home was in the middle of a major remodel due to water damage. The caliber of the storytelling held me captive, and this author continues to intrigue.

(Apr.WHERE THE LOST WANDER by Amy Harmon conveys the pioneer spirit in an engaging story I enjoyed immensely. Agent: Jane Dystel, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. The genuine bond between John and Naomi will keep readers turning the pages. Harmon richly details the train leaders’ stubborn handling of the trail’s challenges from John’s point of view, foreshadowing the fate awaiting them.

After the wagons are attacked and burned by a war party, Naomi and her infant brother, Wolfe, are kidnapped and John determines to save them. Misadventures abound as members of the wagon train succumb to cholera, endure difficult river crossings, and face confrontations with Sioux warriors. Joseph, Mo., to California in 1853 when she meets John Lowry, known as Two Feet by his Pawnee mother’s family for “straddling two worlds.” Naomi is drawn to him, and John is attracted to Naomi’s beauty, resilience, and devotion to her family, but his awareness of the prejudice he faces due to his Pawnee heritage makes him reluctant to believe they could have a future together. Twenty-year-old widow Naomi May is traveling with her family on a wagon train from St. In Harmon’s passionate tale of pioneers and Native Americans (after What the Wind Knows), a young widow falls in love with her wagon party’s mule driver.

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