Rachel Rain Martin

Immerse yourself in this captivating historical fiction as the heroine's journey unfolds, weaving a tapestry of emotions, unforgettable characters, and a story that will resonate long after the final page is turned. Adaline Kelly's life took a tragic turn at the tender age of fourteen when her family's covered wagon overturned near Popular Bluff, Missouri, leaving her as the sole survivor. Alone in a vast prairie, Adaline soon stumbles upon a Band of Cherokee Indians who are facing the heart-wrenching ordeal of forced removal from their ancestral lands in north Georgia. Embraced by the Tribe's Medicine Woman, Adaline quickly adapts to the ways of her adopted people as she walks "The Trail" with them to Oklahoma. Two men vie for Adaline's hand: Balik, the handsome grandson of the Chief, and later, John Hill, a fur trader from back east. Adaline chooses one, but her husband has a secret to keep and diabolical means to retain it.  She tells her story in first person with wit, love, anguish, and victory from her beginnings in Gainesville, Georgia, to her final destiny: On the Bluffs of Cane Creek.