Widow Walk Series
By Gar LaSalle
Widow Walk
Book I
About the Book:
“It is 1857 in the American Pacific Northwest where less than 3500 non-natives have begun settlements. Tensions between local indigenous tribes and pioneer settlers are growing. The U.S. territorial governor has called for a "war of extermination" against natives.
Complicating it all, the local British and U.S. Armies begin preparing for war in a boundary dispute. Haida native Anah-nawitka, widely known by native foes and white settlers as "The Black Wind," addicted to the rush of his kills and the satisfaction of delivering vengeance to the encroaching white colonists, embarks on yet another predatory raid to the south.
Boston-bred Emmy Evers carves out a life for herself and her family amidst her island home's wild streams and woods while her husband Isaac, a prominent local leader, is frequently away.
This is a frontier where a tenuous peace will soon give way, and test the will and endurance of one exceptional woman.”
Isthmus
Book II
About the Book:
“It is 1860 and revolution is erupting throughout the world over universal emancipation. Civil war looms in the Unites States. In the midst of it all, a young woman is moving back to Boston with what is left of her family, devastated and bankrupted by savage, tragic events that occurred less than a year ago in the Pacific Northwest.
They traverse a hostile terrain on the new Panama isthmus railroad, the most modern transportation in the world. From inside their coach they watch the humid forest, a different type of green from what they knew up north, slipping fast past, a warm verdant blur.
Looking down the aisle they see an uncomfortable array of fellow travelers, an international mix of characters with whom they will get to know all too well . . . each with hidden hopes and dreams . . . predators and victims, desperadoes and hangmen, widows and widow makers. A convenient ride through the jungle. An inconvenient assault. A run for their lives.”
The Fairness of Beasts
Book III
About the Book:
It is 1862. A massive Union army is invading the verdant peninsula of Virginia to take Richmond and end the Civil war. In the rumble of this conflict, a young woman's wounded lover stands in harm's way. To rescue him, she must risk everything she holds dear and cross enemy lines. The fate of her young family hangs in the balance, as does that of the entire nation. The risk she takes turns out to test her heart beyond anything she could have imagined.”
Little Gangs
Book IV
About the Book:
It is 1863. The brutal Civil War rages on. Police and well-meaning charity organizations rescue thousands of feral children from the mean streets of Manhattan, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. Their poorly coordinated sweep herds thousands of homeless kids onto trains, scattering the children across 25 Union States. Some young refugees will be adopted into the protection of caring homes. Others will be sent into new versions of Hell.
Sent into the fiery cauldron of the ongoing “Bleeding Kansas” conflict, one boy and his companions must learn how to survive all over again.
As his mother and a detective begin an exhaustive, extensive search to track their whereabouts. They encounter many of the dramatic stories from the famous 19th century orphan train movement.
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