Noah's Ark: The Story of Tamar Tyner Hunt

By B M Grove

Georgia, 1782. In the first gray light of a June morning, Creek warriors descend on the Tyner homestead on Cold Water Creek. When the attack is over, Elizabeth Tyner is dead. The youngest children are gone. And fourteen-year-old Tamar and her sister Mary are bound and marched west into Indian territory, toward a world they do not know and a captivity that will last years.

Tamar survives by becoming invisible - hauling wood, gathering food, building an exhaustive mental map of the land around her, learning Creek word by word from the shadows of her daily labor. And she survives because of an old Creek woman named Sehoy, who sees something in a captive girl stealing food for her sister and makes a quiet, dangerous decision to protect her.

When Mary is purchased by a trader and taken home, Tamar is left alone in the Coweta Towns. When a ceremonial fire is planned, and her name is on it, Sehoy gives her everything she needs to run. What follows is a river journey, a road north through the Georgia piedmont, and a homecoming to a homestead that is not what she left - and a family that has been reshaped by grief and time and the long waiting for someone they refused to stop believing was alive.

Noah's Ark is a novel of survival, endurance, and the cost of coming home. Based on the true story of the author's ancestor, it is a portrait of a girl who walked into the worst thing that can happen and refused to be defined by it - who built her escape from the inside, piece by piece, over years of captivity, and carried every person she loved all the way home.

Based on the true story of Tamar Tyner Hunt, the author's direct ancestor.

For readers of Cold Mountain, True Grit, The Last of the Mohicans, Pillars of the Earth, and The Light Between Oceans.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9B6CCPR
• ISBN13: 9798187431816
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"