No Turning Back: The Harrowing Journeys of Hattie Sheldon (Through Faith and Fire)

By Lane Dolly

Bound for bleak, distant, Indian Territory, headstrong Hattie Sheldon leaves abolitionist Utica, New York, and her worried family to fulfill her sense of calling in that unlikely place. Unwary of looming complications at the end on her long journey, Hattie and readers cross America's rocky political landscape of the 1850s to the intersection of slavery and forced government removals of Indians before the Civil War. No Turning Back carries us into the roughly-settled western frontier of the Cherokee Nation split by a secret treaty and forced there from its southeastern homeland via the deadly "Trail of Tears." Eager to take her place teaching children at a remote mission, what Hattie encounters instead is a matted web of repercussions and conflict, with Cherokee divided against Cherokee and abolitionist against slaveholder, as the country tilts toward civil war. Her presence and outspoken nature attract hostility and then violent threats from an unseen enemy. How long can mere determination sustain her? The further untethered she becomes from her northeastern family and traditions, the more her pursuit of purpose splinters, especially after she steps unwittingly into the crosshairs of rising factionalism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503130843
• ISBN13: 9781503130845
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.2" x 5.5"