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Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati
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Fire Along the Sky (edition 2005)

by Sara Donati

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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:With epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donatiâ??s bestselling saga of an Early American familyâ??s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war.

The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her familyâ??s mountain cabin in Paradise. But Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner can see that Hannah is not the same woman as when she left. For their daughter has come home without her husband and without her sonâ?¦and with a story of loss and tragedy that she canâ??t bear to tell. Yet as Hannah resumes her duties as a gifted healer among the sick and needy, she finds that she is also slowly healing herself. Little does she realize that she is about to be called away to face her greatest challenge ever.

As autumn approaches, news of the latest conflict with Britain finds the young men of Paradiseâ??including eighteen-year-old Daniel Bonnerâ??eager to take up arms. Against their better judgment, Nathaniel and Elizabeth must let him go, just as they must let his twin sister Lily, a stubborn beauty, pursue her independence in Montreal. But on the eve of the War of 1812, an unexpected guest arrives from Scotland: It is the Bonnersâ?? distant cousin, the newly widowed Jennet Scott of Carryckcastle. Far from home, Lily and Jennet will each learn the price of pursuing their dreams and the possibility of true love.

But itâ??s Hannah herself who must risk everything once moreâ??this time to save Daniel, whoâ??s been taken prisoner by the British. As the distant thunder of war threatens Paradise, Hannah may learn to liveâ??and maybe loveâ??again in one final act of courage, duty, and sacrifice.

A gifted writer, a master storyteller, and a first-rate historian, Sara Donati has written a powerful, poignant, and movingly romantic novel that chronicles the lives and adventures of a family as compelling and un
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I started this series nearly 5 years ago-read the first three and then was never able to find the next 3. I forgot all about it. Thanks to a challenge I was doing I discovered this one my shelf.

This is the saga of the Bonner Family, living on a mountain near the village of Paradise, in up state New York. The story, in book 1, begins in 1792. In Book 4 we are in the year 1812 and war has returned. The children are all grown and scattering and a cousin from Scotland arrives unexpectedly. I was afraid that I would be lost, as it took so long for me to return to this series. Surprisingly. I was able to recall quite a bit from the previous books. I suppose that is, in part, due to Donati's wonderful writing. She pulled me right back into the lives of all these wonderful characters.

Looks like Michigan is headed for total lock-down again and I am looking forward to escaping into the Bonner family's world with books 5 and 6.

Highly recommend the series to anyone who loves HF and great family saga. ( )
  JBroda | Sep 24, 2021 |
This is book #4/6 of the Into the Wilderness series. As the other four, it was an excellent read focusing on the War of 1812 and the Bonner children. ( )
  Tess_W | Oct 7, 2019 |
This is the fourth book in Sara Donati's Wilderness series, featuring the Bonner family (and their friends and kin) of New York.  This one takes place in 1812-1813, ten to eleven years after the previous book.

The original couple, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Middleton Bonner, are still a part of the story, but the focus is on their four adult children - particularly the girls, Hannah (28 when the book begins) and Lily (18).  Their distant cousin Jennet (also 28) comes from Scotland, looking to rekindle her love with the oldest son, Luke, after being widowed.  And Lily's twin Daniel goes off to fight in what we today call the War of 1812.

The author readily admits in a note at the end that "in pursuit of a good story, I have fiddled with the facts" (page 657).  I think she gets away with it because so little is taught (in American schools at least) about the War of 1812, the backdrop for this story - what she writes seems plausible.  Her depictions of city and frontier life in that era feel spot on.

I don't want to give too much of the complex plot away.  Besides Paradise, the fictional town in the real Adirondacks near Lake George and Saratoga (both of which I have visited), the book also has as settings Montreal (Luke's home, where Lily goes for a while to study art), and Île aux Noix, or Nut Island, in the middle of a river in Canada just north of the border.  Let's just say the story kept me engrossed.

It also ends with a major event that sets up the next book in the series.  It's so compelling that I had to go borrow the book today to start reading it - I'd planned to take a break in this series for a good month!  Oh well!  I will miss Kate Reading's excellent narration in the audiobook format.

© Amanda Pape - 2016

[This e-audiobook, along with print and electronic copies, were borrowed from and returned to public libraries.] ( )
1 vote riofriotex | Dec 22, 2016 |
Book 4 in the Into the Wilderness Series - another great installment. I no longer feel I have to compare to the Outlander series - This is absolute beautiful, exciting, interesting storytelling. The characters come to life, and are like old friends by the time this book begins. The main characters Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have branched out to include their adult children and we follow them through their adventures as well as get an historical account of what life was like during this time period. Love, love love it! already started on Book 5. ( )
  booklovers2 | Aug 8, 2016 |
I adore her writing...no anachronisms to distract me and jar me out of the time period...Before you sit down to read this one you might want to assemble; a box of tissues for the sad parts, a fan to wave to cool you off during the racy parts and maybe someone sitting beside you to thump you on the back when you're laughing so hard that you're afraid you'll choke to death.
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  Clueless | Jul 8, 2013 |
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Set free by the death of a husband she had not wanted nor ever learned to love, Jennet Scott Huntar of Carryckcastle left home for the new world on her twenty-eighth birthday.
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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:With epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donatiâ??s bestselling saga of an Early American familyâ??s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war.

The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her familyâ??s mountain cabin in Paradise. But Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner can see that Hannah is not the same woman as when she left. For their daughter has come home without her husband and without her sonâ?¦and with a story of loss and tragedy that she canâ??t bear to tell. Yet as Hannah resumes her duties as a gifted healer among the sick and needy, she finds that she is also slowly healing herself. Little does she realize that she is about to be called away to face her greatest challenge ever.

As autumn approaches, news of the latest conflict with Britain finds the young men of Paradiseâ??including eighteen-year-old Daniel Bonnerâ??eager to take up arms. Against their better judgment, Nathaniel and Elizabeth must let him go, just as they must let his twin sister Lily, a stubborn beauty, pursue her independence in Montreal. But on the eve of the War of 1812, an unexpected guest arrives from Scotland: It is the Bonnersâ?? distant cousin, the newly widowed Jennet Scott of Carryckcastle. Far from home, Lily and Jennet will each learn the price of pursuing their dreams and the possibility of true love.

But itâ??s Hannah herself who must risk everything once moreâ??this time to save Daniel, whoâ??s been taken prisoner by the British. As the distant thunder of war threatens Paradise, Hannah may learn to liveâ??and maybe loveâ??again in one final act of courage, duty, and sacrifice.

A gifted writer, a master storyteller, and a first-rate historian, Sara Donati has written a powerful, poignant, and movingly romantic novel that chronicles the lives and adventures of a family as compelling and un

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