Questa is a beautiful, independent widow who was forced to bury her dead husband, alone under the blazing desert sun.
Chase Gunner is a chivalrous cowboy who’s also heading west for a better life.
Romance sparks when they meet in a caravan of covered, ox-drawn wagons.
They’re venturing along The Applegate Trail, which was supposed to be safer than the Oregon Trail.
Yet Questa, Chase, and dozens of families must brave wild animals… mountains… and the threat of deadly illness, starvation, and unrelenting elements.
These grueling conditions haunted real-life travelers in 1846 as they made a treacherous trek in a wagon train of covered, ox-drawn wagons, while courageously venturing into the Northwest to claim land and begin new lives.
Then, 150 years later, their saga inspired history enthusiast Linda Lochard to join 31 days of a re-enactment of a 51-day trek along The Applegate Trail.
Along the way, she experienced the grueling realities of travel by wagon train-while learning the tragic fates of men, women, and children who lost their lives 150 years beforehand on that same trail.
This inspired Linda to pen Life Along the Applegate Trail: A Story of Grit and Determination to showcase the dangerous, brave, and adventurous realities for the families who made the original trip and settled in the Pacific Northwest.
This novel based on the true story highlights the travelers’ hardships, especially those of women who gave birth along the way.
Romance, humor, and kindness balance the danger and suffering, as this beautifully written story provides a peek back at history.
关于作者
Elizabeth Ann Atkins is Co-Creator of Two Sisters Writing & Publishing, an Emmy Award nominated TV show host, a journalist, book coach, inspirational speaker, certified meditation teacher, a fitness enthusiast, and author of 33 books. Elizabeth has a master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan.
She loves to help people cultivate their book ideas into a published format to share with readers everywhere!
Her memoir-God’s Answer Is Know: Lessons From a Spiritual Life-chronicles her life story and shares her spiritual awakening, along with tools anyone can use to deepen their connection to the Divine and live a more joyous, healthy, peaceful, prosperous, and influential life.
Elizabeth co-hosts the Emmy Award nominated MI Healthy Mind, a weekly TV show that aims to shatter stigmas around mental illness and addiction. All episodes are at MIHealthy Mind.com
The Oprah Winfrey Show featured Elizabeth as a guest to celebrate her 100-pound weight loss and lifestyle as a health and fitness enthusiast.
Elizabeth and her sister Catherine M. Greenspan co-created Two Sisters Writing & Publishing, which: publishes their books; provides ghostwriting, publishing, and book coaching services; and hosts monthly writing contests and the Two Sisters Writing Club; and showcases their blog, A Tale of Two Sisters.
They are launching the Two Sisters Writing & Publishing Virtual Speakers Agency in Fall of 2020 to enable their speakers to share messages of Diversity & Inclusion and other Inspiration to audiences around the world.
The Two Sisters also teach people how to unleash their power through meditation and a writing technique Elizabeth invented and trademarked called Power Journal that they created and share in workbooks.
Elizabeth and Catherine have written and published dozens of books, including their mother’s book, The Triumph of Rosemary: A Memoir, by Judge Marylin E. Atkins.
Elizabeth has a master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan. She studied French at Collège de Rivière-du-Loupe in Québec, Canada.
Elizabeth is an inspiring speaker who recites her autobiographical poem, White Chocolate, and has spoken at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, GM’s World Diversity Day, Gannett, Daimler Chrysler, 100 Black Men of America, the NAACP, Beaumont Hospital, Power Networking, Comerica Bank, the National Association of Black Journalists, and the American Library Association.
She has taught writing at Wayne State University, Oakland University, Wayne County Community College District, and at national conferences.
As an actress, Elizabeth plays a major role in the feature-length film Anything Is Possible, nominated for ‘Best Foreign Film’ by the Nollywood and African Film Critics Association. She composed an original screenplay, Redemption, a gritty drama about a Detroit gangster and a writer. And Elizabeth plays a 1950s journalist in the international shipwreck drama, The Andrea Doria: Are The Passengers Saved?
A former Fox 2 Detroit News writer, she has been a guest on Montel, NPR, Good Morning America Sunday, The CBS Evening News, several BET programs, and other national TV shows. After writing her master’s thesis about mixed-race Americans, her work appeared in The New York Times.
Her articles have also been published in The San Diego Tribune, Essence, Ebony, HOUR Detroit, HOUR Home, HOUR Bride, BET.com, Ms., BLAC Detroit, and The Detroit News, where her articles on race were nominated for The Pulitzer Prize. She also wrote a biography for the Presidential Medal of Freedom tribute for Rosa Parks.
来自同一作者的更多电子书 / 编辑
752,646 此类电子书
