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Lake in the Clouds - Wilderness, Bk 3
Author: Sara Donati

In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past--and in th... more »e life of the spirited Bonners--as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century.

It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah’s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth’s school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides--one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk--and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing.

After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman--a former slave herself, one of the village’s wisest women and Elizabeth’s closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading for almost ten years. The Bonners will do what they must to protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For a bounty hunter is afoot--Hannah’s childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby.

While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liam’s immediate past and what caused him to change so drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world.

Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to rebound from their losses--old and new--than they find themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mother’s people?

ISBN-13: 9780553582796
ISBN-10: 0553582798
Publication Date: 4/29/2003
Pages: 672
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Currently 4.2/5 Stars.

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4.2 stars, based on 117 ratings

Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Judy W. (ReadingGemma) reviewed Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, Bk 3) on 12/19/2008 + 5 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 5

I highly recommend this series...This is the 2nd in the series...If you enjoy historical/romance, this is the book for you....Her characters become your frinds & the imagery is incredible....I cannot wait to read the last 3 books in this series! (6 in all)HIGHLY Recommended!!!

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Ruth R. (yomamaruth) reviewed Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, Bk 3) on 5/15/2007 + 366 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

This is the third in a series of historical novels that began with Into The Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore. Set in upstate NY at the end of the 18th century and early 19th century, the books can stand alone or be read in sequence. Love, loss, adventure and a wonderful set of characters

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Mary B. (MK) reviewed Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, Bk 3) on 6/14/2006 + 21 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

This was a wonderful story. This is the third book after Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore and I loved them all.

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Christy B. reviewed Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, Bk 3) on 4/15/2010 + 3 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

a perfect compliment to the first two books in the series! Cant wait to keep reading!

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Donna W. (shooter38) reviewed Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, Bk 3) on 7/18/2009 + 63 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

Good read, I couldn't wait to get back to this book. Highly recommended.

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Carol F. (cactusflowerwomen) reviewed Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, Bk 3) on 4/29/2021 + 628 more book reviews

Another excellent book in a series of 3. All the books are excellent and fun to read, plus educational. There is some similarity to Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, tho I like Gabaldon more.

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Irmalee E. (Irm) reviewed Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, Bk 3) on 2/21/2007 + 2 more book reviews

Excellent book. Without buying new her books are hard to find

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Jeni M. (chipaw) reviewed Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, Bk 3) on 2/3/2007 + 112 more book reviews

A really good book very much like Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series! Highly recommended by Gabaldon!

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Julie C. (booksharer57) reviewed Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, Bk 3) on 10/28/2006 + 11 more book reviews

A must read for fans of Sara Donati and the 'lake' series.

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Candy C. (uwsweetness) reviewed Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, Bk 3) on 8/10/2006 + 14 more book reviews

Another great book in the series by Donati!

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