Beyond The Cherokee Trail
Lisa Carter
Abingdon Press, Sep 1 2015, $14.99
ISBN: 9781426795466
In 2018 the Prairie N--- members claim the attack at the Trail of
Trails Interpretive Center in Cartridge Cove, North Carolina. They warn the staff to shut down the festival
commemorating the 180th-year since the tragic forced march or else burn. Linden Birchfield, who recently arrived from
Raleigh, refuses as she believes in the importance of this event. She becomes further animated when she finds a
journal from a volunteer Trail of Tears’ marcher.
In 1837, Nurse Sarah Jane Hopkins accompanies the beleaguered
Cherokee on their forced march from Georgia to Oklahoma in order to help the
sick and injured. Reading Sarah Jane’s
odyssey encourages Linden to remain resolute though someone wants her and her
program dead. Though he has doubts about
a relationship with Sarah Jane, Walker Crowe knows he loves this obstinate
woman though he loathes her festival.
Beyond The Cherokee Trail is
a fabulous drama due to the journal that brings alive the harrowing ordeal of
the forced trek by someone who did not have to go. The well-written romance surprisingly
enhances the historical subplot because in spite of the man she cherishes and
others demanding the gala aborted; Linden finds strength in what Sarah Jane
willingly did.
Harriet Klausner
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