
We hope they will enrich your experience of this mesmerizing novel. The questions and discussion topics that follow are intended to enhance your reading of Sara Donati’s Into the Wilderness. A saga of adventurous new beginnings, Into the Wilderness is a breathtaking journey through the heart and soul of one couple’s epic fate-and the destiny of a young nation. Soon Elizabeth realizes that Nathaniel is the only match for her. The only man who seems to speak the truth to her is Nathaniel Bonner, a fiery outsider known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. Elizabeth has always treasured her independence, valuing her freedom and integrity above all else. She soon meets and falls in love with Nathaniel Bonner, a white man who was raised by Native Americans.

He has a scheme to give Elizabeth substantial property-if she agrees to marry Richard Todd, a man to whom he owes substantial debts. The book tells the story of a twenty-nine-year-old Englishwoman, Elizabeth Middleton, who travels to a remote area of New York State in 1792, to take up residence there with her father and brother.

Into the Wilderness takes us to late eighteenth-century America, where Elizabeth Middleton arrives from England to fulfill her dream of creating a schoolhouse, serving all the children of a remote New York mountain village, regardless of sex or skin color. Capturing the imagination of readers worldwide, the novels of Sara Donati bring to life compelling chapters in history, woven with tales of courage and passionate devotion.
