Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: Tate Publishing and Enterprises
ISBN-10: 1602478325
Type: Fiction
Pages: 187
Copyright: Jan 8, 2007
ISBN-13: 9781602478329
Desperate to save her life and that of her five-year-old brother,Nan packs and flees an abusive home, embarking on a journey that will test her faith, determination, and spirit. Set in the 1800s of Colorado, Nan's Journey will grab your heart.
Nan's Journey follows Nan and Elmer as they seek safety and find refuge and hope in the arms of a family of strangers, including Fred, a disgruntled preacher- turned- mountain man. He reaches out to help, only to find hope and love renewed in his own heart. In her first novel, Elaine Littau weaves memorable characters into the vivid background of the wild, unsettled heart of America, presenting readers with the timeless struggle of overcoming adversity, and seeking hope above all through Nan's Journey.
Excerpt
It was late, The moon had risen and the night symphony was in full force. Crickets chirped at their rivals, the frogs, and dominated the night chorus. Only one sound was foreign--a whimper from under the ferns. At the base if the largest pine in the woods was a small form crying, moaning, and whimpering. Black hair, matted and dirty, hung in long ropes down the front of the girl. She had been in this spot for hours, at least that is what it felt like to her. Stretching, she cried out in pain. The blood-covered welts burst open only to bleed again. Her back was wet with blood and her dress was torn and useless.
Tralee, Ireland. September 1948.
An arrogant, and highly agitated, priest arrives home after 40 years.
Days later he's dead. Suicide? Or did his past catch up with him?
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
