I am VERY confident that you are going to love it as much as I did.

Put it on your to-read list (or, heck, pre-order it!) if you want to see the resilience and beauty of humanity during a fascinating time in American history. WHERE THE LOST WANDER is out in ONE WEEK (April 28, 2020). It’s about finding grit in times of struggle and how the people with surround ourselves with get us through it. Whether it’s the American, Native American, or mixed families, they make up the fibers of this book, and make it so much more than a love story. I could read them over and over and over. UGH, they are just so perfect and sweet and delicate. I LIVE FOR the way she writes love scenes. It’s subtle and quiet but intensely emotional and so beautiful. But she handles both perspectives of Americans and Native Americans carefully and in a way that allows you to sympathize for both sides in what was a very tumultuous time in America’s history. Can I know that is it authentic? Absolutely not. Her depiction of Native Americans feels authentic. It’s obvious that Harmon spent time researching Native American tribes.It’s admirable, beautiful, harrowing, and terrifying all at once. But if you need more convincing, Harmon manages to create a truly believable account of what life might be like when walking across the country alongside oxen and covered wagons. It’s set on the freaking Oregon Trail.Reasons You Should Read WHERE THE LOST WANDER: Both will have to make terrible sacrifices to find each other, save each other, and eventually…make peace with who they are. Ripped apart, they can’t turn back, they can’t go on, and they can’t let go. When a horrific tragedy strikes, decimating Naomi’s family and separating her from John, the promises they made are all they have left. John’s heritage gains them safe passage through hostile territory only to come between them as they seek to build a life together.

Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both.īut life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss. Buy on Amazon, Buy on Barnes & Noble, Buy from The Book Depository

Where the lost wander by amy harmon