Ethan's Abby: A Trilogy
(2022)(A book in the Ethan's Abby series)
An omnibus of novels by Elizabeth Fackler
In the wilds of the American Southwest in the 1880s, twenty-five-year-old Ethan Wood, a fugitive on the run, witnesses the attempted sale of a white girl by a bushwhacker. A young teenager, Abby Tate has survived the massacre of her family only to be passed around among brigands. When the Negro proprietor objects to her sale in his saloon, Ethan is drawn into a gunfight that leaves the bushwhacker dead and Abby in Ethan's hands. Abby coaxes Ethan to find the massacre site in an effort to remember who she is. Standing over the graves, she realizes her younger sister, Rene, is missing. Their search for the nine-year-old, simple-minded girl leads Abby and Ethan on a journey following hints that lead only to another destination.
A mystical story of divine intercession, the story weaves together the influence of Sister Leah opposing the witchcraft of Vera McCutcheon to guide our star-crossed lovers toward an epiphany with the past. Rene emerges as a complex, contrary character plaguing everyone until she, too, finds a future worth having. Ethan's sister, Liliana, the bodyguard Leroy Bright, sternly paternal U.S. Marshal A.J. Ledbetter, white slaver Abner McCutcheon and his ruthless wife Vera, along with portraits of outlaws, lawmen, recluses, and widows provide a spectrum of inhabitants in the Wild West before extradition and barbe wire reined in freedom.
Most poignant is the love affair between Abby and Ethan. His patience and her trust provide ground to grow the intimacy they each need. In the end, by giving him a place to stand, she saves hm as much as he does her.
Genre: Historical Romance
A mystical story of divine intercession, the story weaves together the influence of Sister Leah opposing the witchcraft of Vera McCutcheon to guide our star-crossed lovers toward an epiphany with the past. Rene emerges as a complex, contrary character plaguing everyone until she, too, finds a future worth having. Ethan's sister, Liliana, the bodyguard Leroy Bright, sternly paternal U.S. Marshal A.J. Ledbetter, white slaver Abner McCutcheon and his ruthless wife Vera, along with portraits of outlaws, lawmen, recluses, and widows provide a spectrum of inhabitants in the Wild West before extradition and barbe wire reined in freedom.
Most poignant is the love affair between Abby and Ethan. His patience and her trust provide ground to grow the intimacy they each need. In the end, by giving him a place to stand, she saves hm as much as he does her.
Genre: Historical Romance
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