The Trail

A Savage Wilde seriesbook 1 of 3Next:The West(2013) →

Land: that's all nineteen-year-old Sophie Wilde wants. Her own farm, her own stables, land to till and harvest. When her father mentions the plots being given away in Oregon, Sophie volunteers to settle the homestead; even if it means a thousand miles of being saddled with her prim twin sister, Margaux. The journey brings Sophie face to face with others that share her dream— a notorious outlaw, an immigrant family, a circus performer, and a freed slave— and sets the beauty and violence of the western territories against her own coming of age.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 369 pages

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