Sara Donati - Lake in the Clouds

IF YOU ENJOY HISTORICAL ROMANCES LIKE DIANA GABALDONS OUTLANDER SERIES, youll love this.

Daily American

AS GOOD AS IT GETS Donati writes eloquently about frontier life.Tampa Tribune

A sweeping, highly enjoyable historical adventure-love story.

Booklist

A truly complete, exquisite detailed universe with so many wonderful characters and the stories of their lives.

Romance Reviews Today

DAWN ON A DISTANT SHORE

The likable protagonists, a multitude of amusing secondary characters and exciting escapades make this a compelling read.

Publishers Weekly

Donatis skillfully told and captivating romantic historical saga brings a tumultuous era and dashing characters to life in what promises to be a very popular and rewarding series.Booklist

Donati masterfully weaves the evocative history of the founding of America with the powerful challenges faced by those, like the Bonners, who settled the new world. The strengths they find in themselves provide a timely reminder that this melting pot nation is a rich fabric, woven by the lives of ordinary people who rise to extraordinary challenges.

BookPage

Like Into the Wilderness, Dawn on a Distant Shore will keep readers up into the wee hours. We can only hope Donati has her supply of midnight oil that she is using to write the third installment of this worthy and satisfying series.

The Orlando Sentinel

Set in the wilderness of 1794 New-York [Dawn on a Distant Shore] features an imaginative plot that interconnects characters without straining credibility or leaving loose ends. Its a balanced blend of bravery, treachery, romance, suffering and hope.The Tampa Tribune Times

This novel is a sequel to the earlier epic, Into the Wilderness, but although theres a strong sense of the characters past, its perfectly enjoyable on its own terms. If you havent read the earlier book, however, youre likely to make immediate tracks in your own quest to acquireit.The Seattle Times

Sara Donati has created a worthy historical epic here, enriched by solid intrigues and a compelling cast of characters.

The Bellingham Herald

Remarkably written. Outstanding.Rendezvous

The story line is impressive as the plot fully entertains the audience. Sara Donati creates an American epic that will receive much acclaim from fans and critics.

The Midwest Book Review

INTO THE WILDERNESS

The author builds a powerful adventure story, animating everyoneGerman villagers, slaves, and Scottish trappers alikein a gorgeous, vividly described American landscape. The erotic passages arent bad either.People

Donatis captivating saga is much like the books in Diana Gabaldons bestselling Outlander series, and it is definitely the romance of the year when it comes to transcending genre boundaries and appealing to readers who love lush historical epics or thrilling backwoods adventures.Booklist

A lushly written novel Donati, a skillful storyteller, easily weaves historical fact with romantic ambience to create a dense, complex design. Exemplary historical fiction, boasting a heroine with a real and tangible presence.

Kirkus Reviews

Remarkable a vibrant tapestry Sara Donati is a skilled storyteller who weaves historical facts into a grand adventure of love, mystery, and intrigue. She takes us to an unfamiliar place and allows us to breathe in the air of another time. This is exemplary historical fiction. From page one, the action is nonstop. The more you read, the better it gets.Tulsa World

An elegant, eloquent word journey The author has [a] gift for capturing the history and the lives of the people of that time and place.The Tampa Tribune

Epic in scope, emotionally intense an enrapturing, grand adventure.BookPage

Memorable draws the reader into the story from page one a powerfully good read.Toronto Sun

A splendid read Wonderful reading, suited for a cold winters night.Rocky Mountain News

Better buy some midnight oil, for this hugely satisfying novel is a page-turner.The Orlando Sentinela

A rich, involving, fully textured tale. Each time you open a book, you hope to discover a story that will make your spirit of adventure and romance sing. This book delivers on that promise.Amanda Quick

A beautiful tale of both romance and survival Here is the beauty as well as the savagery of the wilderness and, at the core of it all, the compelling story of the love of a man and a woman, both for the untamed land and for one another.

Allan W. Eckert

Also by Sara Donati

I NTO THE W ILDERNESS
D AWN ON A D ISTANT S HORE

For Jill Grinberg

Elizabeth Middleton Bonner (also known as Bone-in-Her-Back), a schoolteacher

Nathaniel Bonner (also known as Wolf-Running-Fast or Between-Two-Lives), a hunter and trapper; Elizabeths husband

Danl Bonner (known also as Hawkeye), Nathaniels father

Luke or Luc (Nathaniels first son by an early alliance), resident in Scotland

Hannah (also known as Walks-Ahead), Nathaniels daughter by his first wife

Mathilde (or Lily, called Two-Sparrows by the Kahnyenkehka)

and Daniel (called Little-Fox by the Kahnyenkehka), Elizabeth and Nathaniels twins

Selah Voyager, an escaped slave

Many-Doves, a Mohawk woman who lives at Lake in the Clouds; Nathaniels sister-in-law by his first marriage

Runs-from-Bears, of the Mohawk Turtle clan; the husband of Many-Doves

Blue-Jay, their eldest son; Kateri, their daughter; and Sawatis, their youngest son

Strong-Words, once known as Otter, brother of Many-Doves, living to the west where he has married into a Seneca longhouse

Strikes-the-Sky, Seneca, friend of Strong-Words

Curiosity Freeman, a freed slave, Richard Todds housekeeper

Galileo Freeman, a freed slave, the manager of Todds holdings, and Curiositys husband

Daisy, their daughter, and her husband, Joshua Hench, blacksmith, living in Paradise; their four children, Sarah, Solange, Lucy, Emmanuel

Almanzo, their son, living in New-York City, employed at the African Free School

Richard Todd, a physician and landholder Katherine (Kitty) Witherspoon Middleton Todd, his wife

Ethan Middleton, Kitty Todds son by her first husband

The widow Kuick, born Lucy Simple, originally of Boston. Owner of the mill and the land around it, bordering on Hidden Wolf

Isaiah Kuick, her unmarried son and heir

Ambrose Dye, her overseer The slaves at the mill: Ezekiel, Levi, Shadrach, Malachi, Moses, Reuben, and Cookie

Jemima Southern, a servant to the widow Kuick along with Becca Kaes and Dolly Smythe

Mr. George Gathercole, minister; Rose, his wife;Mary, their daughter

Anna Hauptmann McGarrity, owner and proprietor of the trading post

Axel Metzler, her father and proprietor of the tavern

Jed McGarrity, hunter, trapper, and village constable

Liam Kirby, a bounty hunter from New-York City, formerly of Paradise