It’s been a long time since I was so caught up in a story. Soon, the wagon train is faced with challenges they could never have imagined hostile territories, lack of drinking water, dangerous river crossings, dysentery, and racial prejudice. She is everything he wants but cannot have. He is half Pawnee, a man straddling two worlds. But their relationship is doomed to fail. When John Lowry agrees to help his uncle guide a wagon train as far as a fort where he is to deliver his father’s mules, he doesn’t expect to be instantly attracted to the beautiful Naomi. She knows it will be a tough journey but faces it with enthusiasm and a touch of trepidation. Seeking a better life, widow Naomi May joins a wagon train with her family heading across the country to California. For updates on upcoming book releases, author posts and more, join Amy at.

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Her novel, A Different Blue, is a New York Times Bestseller. Her books have been published in eighteen languages, truly a dream come true for a little country girl from Utah.Īmy Harmon has written thirteen novels, including the USA Today Bestsellers, The Smallest Part, Making Faces, and Running Barefoot, and the #1 Amazon bestselling historical, From Sand and Ash. Both will have to make terrible sacrifices to find each other, save each other, and eventually…make peace with who they are.Īmy Harmon is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and New York Times Bestselling author. Ripped apart, they can’t turn back, they can’t go on, and they can’t let go. When a horrific tragedy strikes, decimating Naomi’s family and separating her from John, the promises they made are all they have left. John’s heritage gains them safe passage through hostile territory only to come between them as they seek to build a life together.

Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both.īut life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West.

The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. I n this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss.

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