Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Jean Hackensmith
Tags: romance, time the to travel, past, train Jean Hackensmith, Wagons western, wagon
Description: It is the family vacation of a lifetime. A trip on a genuine wagon train headed west acrossIt is the family vacation of a lifetime. A trip on a genuine wagon train headed west across the Great Plains of Kansas. The brochure promises adventure, realism and romance—but it doesn't say anything about the possibility that your entire caravan of more than forty twenty-first-century "pioneers" could become unwilling participants in a real trek west—a trip that is destined to take place in the year 1845—a trip that will test your stamina and courage as you cross endless deserts, towering peaks and raging rivers.
Add to that a prairie fire and a ghostly caravan of immigrants who trudge through your circled corral of wagons and disappear into the endless void of a night sky. Then suddenly, gun shots. The cry of snarling wolves -- and a man dressed in buckskin. He identifies himself as Luke Skinner, the most infamous wagon pilot ever to cross the Great Divide. He's the crazy one, right? He and his wagon train of four-hundred determined immigrants are the ones living in the past. Or are you?
Fire fighter Rachel O'Conner quickly ceases to care when she is swept into the world -- and the arms—of the rugged wagon master. Should she return to the future with her family or stay with Luke; a man who fears nothing; a man dedicated to settling the west; a man, who in only three short months, she had grown to love......
2008-05-01
