One Against the Wilderness

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Sixteen-year-old Deirdre O'Connor, orphaned by her mother's death and her father's apparent drowning, leaves Boston for the frontier to reunite with her Mormon aunt and uncle. Cros sing the plains toward the Great Basin in 1847, she is separated during an Indian raid and must survive alone in a mountain cave through the winter. As she tests her mettle against the wilderness, she wrestles with her growing faith and her heart's choice between two very different men. A Robinson Crusoe-style survival tale with a spirited heroine at its center—she builds a door, makes fire, and fights off a wolverine alone in the mountains. Blends real LDS Church history (Brigham Young, Eliza Snow, the Mormon Battalion, Fort Laramie) with an exciting adventure-romance. A conversion story that never preaches—Deirdre's growing faith unfolds naturally alongside danger and romance. The love triangle between a glamorous, ambitious sailor and a humble, faithful pioneer gives the romance real stakes. “She was all alone in a savage land—one against the wilderness.”Perfect for an adult Latter-day Saint reader who enjoys clean historical romance and pioneer-era adventure grounded in Church history. Show more