Wings of the Dawn
Now available for purchase in most digital outlets including Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Amazon, Kobo, Tolino, OverDrive, Baker & Taylor, Hoopla and others. Find the print book on Amazon and at Gallery 15 in Burns, Oregon.
The Story:
Nicole Duval is a high-class lady with a past. She is octaroon – a woman of one eighth negro blood – in New Orleans of 1853. She gains her freedom from slavery, sells out, and heads west to escape her past and the threat of being re-enslaved. In Independence, Missouri she meets up with her cousin Magdalena. Together they outfit wagons, engage drivers, and start the two-thousand-mile journey to California, admitted to the Union as a free state in 1850. Both cousins try to pass for white. They are helped by a few enterprising gentlemen, fellow members of their wagon train, and Indians. They are hindered by storms, dust, desert, mountains, slave hunters, disease, and Indians. The people and the relationships they form along the way transform their lives, and they are propelled on their journey by the wings of the dawn.
Nicole Duval is a high-class lady with a past. She is octaroon – a woman of one eighth negro blood – in New Orleans of 1853. She gains her freedom from slavery, sells out, and heads west to escape her past and the threat of being re-enslaved. In Independence, Missouri she meets up with her cousin Magdalena. Together they outfit wagons, engage drivers, and start the two-thousand-mile journey to California, admitted to the Union as a free state in 1850. Both cousins try to pass for white. They are helped by a few enterprising gentlemen, fellow members of their wagon train, and Indians. They are hindered by storms, dust, desert, mountains, slave hunters, disease, and Indians. The people and the relationships they form along the way transform their lives, and they are propelled on their journey by the wings of the dawn.
What Readers are Saying about Wings of the Dawn
Like it? Those are two very inadequate words for the most delightful book I've read in a long time. I could feel the wind and sand and dirt and exhaustion that the people felt. Your descriptions are just so beautifully scripted. I just have one complaint, which is the same as for Wings of the Wind. It came to an end. I wanted to keep reading. Your style of writing, which is so true for all your books, really pulls the reader along. Some writers have us laboring through their style like your oxen in the sandy desert, but yours is more like skiing down a smooth hill. I know you did a lot of research, but your descriptions are so easy to picture in my mind that I'm wondering if you actually followed a lot of their route. I'm so grateful that you love to write.
Happy fan!
Virginia B., Red Bluff, California
Happy fan!
Virginia B., Red Bluff, California
Book Signing in Burns on June 18 & 19 - Successful event for author & gallery
Marjorie
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with Oregon No. 1 Fan, Jenni
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with writer friend Nancy and Jenni
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