Deep Summer Plantation Trilogy Series, Book 1.

The New York Times- bestselling author of Jubilee Trail does "a grand job of storytelling" in this saga of the pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness ( The New York Times ). For his service in the king's army during the French and Indian War, Judith Sheramy's father, a Puritan New Englander, is granted a parcel of land in far-off Louisiana. As the family ventures down the Mississippi to make a new home in the wilderness, Judith meets...