Fire Along the Sky
The fourth book in the series.
hardcover
Fire along the Sky
Sara Donati
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553801465 Edition: Hardcover; 2004-08-31
mass market paperback
ISBN: 0553582771
13: 978-0-553-58277-2
Edition: Paperback; 2005-11-29
Locations
Primary Characters
Elizabeth Middleton Bonner, a schoolteacher
Nathaniel Bonner, a hunter and trapper; Elizabeth's husband
The Bonner children, in order of age: Luke Scott Bonner, Nathaniel's son by an early alliance, resident in Montreal. A merchant, importer, and fur trader; general manager of the Carryck holdings
Hannah (also known as Walks-Ahead or Walking-Woman) Nathaniel's daughter by his first wife
the twins Mathilde (or Lily) and Daniel
Gabriel
Jennet Scott Huntar, a widow, sister of the Earl of Carryck and a distant cousin to the Bonners
Iona Fraser, Luke Bonner's maternal grandmother. Born in Scotland, resident in Montreal
Simon Ballentyne, originally of Carryck, Luke Bonner's business partner, resident in Montreal
Many-Doves, a Mohawk woman who lives at Lake in the Clouds; she is Nathaniel's sister-in-law by his first marriage
Runs-from-Bears, of the Kanien'kehá:ka Turtle clan; the husband of Many-Doves; their children:
Blue-Jay, their eldest son
Annie (also called Kenenstasi), their youngest daughter
Kateri, married and living in Canada
Sawatis, their youngest son, living in Canada
Ethan Middleton, Elizabeth's nephew, Richard Todd's stepson and apprentice
Richard Todd, physician and landowner, widower
Cornelius Bump, a tinker
Curiosity Freeman, a freed slave, housekeeper for the Todds
Daisy Hench, Curiosity's adult daughter, a free woman of color
Joshua Hench, blacksmith, a freed slave; Daisy's husband; their children still resident in Paradise:
Emmanuel, apprenticed to his father in the smithy
Sally and Lucy Hench, servants in the Todds' household
Leo, the youngest, Elizabeth's student
Jemima Southern Kuick, widow, resident at the mill house
Martha, Jemima's daughter
The Widow Kuick, Jemima's invalid mother-in-law
Charlie LeBlanc, miller, and his wife Becca Kaes LeBlanc?; six sons by his first wife, five daughters by Becca
Jan Kaes, Becca's father, a widower; Michael, his adult son
Nicholas (Claes) Wilde, farmer and orchard keeper, and his wife Dolly, an invalid
Callie, their daughter
Cookie Fiddler, a freed slave and the Wildes' housekeeper and servant
Levi Fiddler, a freed slave, farm worker at the Wildes', and Cookie's son
Horace Greber?, trapper, hunter, and his son Hardwork
Martin and Georgia Ratz, Martin's mother Addie, sons Jem, Henry, and Harry, Elizabeth's students. Adult daughter Lydia, unmarried
Jock and Laura Hindle; Jock's mother and father
Goody Cunningham? and her grown son Praise-Be?, his wife Jane (McGarrity), adult daughter Dora, unmarried
Missy (Margaret) Parker, unemployed housekeeper; her daughter Theodosia is married to Jonas Littlejohn, post rider
Anna and Jed McGarrity, owners of the trading post, Jed is also the constable
Peter Dubonnet, his wife Nettie, his widowed father Claude
Benjamin, Obediah, and Elijah Cameron
At Nut Island
Colonel Marcel Caudebec, commander of the garrison
Adam O'Neill, a Catholic priest
Major Christian Wyndham, King's Rangers
Major Percy Watson, Forty-ninth Regiment, Canadian Fencibles
Captain James MacDonald?, Indian Department
Lieutenant Fitzwilliam Hughes, Thirty-ninth Foot, Lower Canadian Select Embodied Militia
Major Jacques-Rene? Boucher de la Bruere, Second Battalion LCSEM
Captain David Le Couteur of the Canadian Chasseurs (Light Infantry), Fifth Battalion LCSEM
The voltigeurs: Kester MacLeod?, Uz Brodie, Drew Clarke
Liam Kirby (called Red Crow? by the Mohawk), gun captain on board the USS Ferret
Jim Booke, militia captain
Short summary
In the sultry summer of 1812, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner welcome Nathaniel's half-Indian daughter, Hannah, back into the family fold. But Hannah, a healer trained in both Western and native traditions, comes home to Paradise, New York, near broken in the wake of a haunting tragedy. Hannah soon finds that even in Paradise she can't hide from the newest war between England and the young United States. Her brother Daniel enlists...and is captured. Now it is up to Hannah and her cousin Jennet to pull off a daring act of rescue and sacrifice that will plunge these courageous Bonner women into the greatest danger of all... This text was taken from the back cover of the mass market paperback. --Judy
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