Synopses & Reviews
"Remember -- you make your own luck."
Abandoned on the frontier by her faithless fiancand#233;, Jane Peck prepares to head home, only to learn that the Philadelphia life she once knew is no more. But can a proper young lady find happiness as the only woman in a primitive pioneer settlement? Armed with only a finishing-school education and her natural determination, Jane must endure life with her flea-bitten landlord, a perilous manhunt, and the traps and hazards of a blossoming romance.
Will Jane survive the challenges of the wild, uncharted frontiers of friendship, love, and the Washington Territory?
Synopsis
Set against a spirited 19th-century backdrop, the second title in the Newbery Honor author's trilogy is "an exciting combination of danger, humor, misunderstandings, and first kisses."--"Kirkus Reviews." Now in paperback.
Synopsis
In the final episode of Holm's critically acclaimed trilogy, Jane Beck's Philadelphia demons make their way to the frontier, threatening her claim on land, love, and happiness.
About the Author
Jennifer L. Holm is the author of the Newbery Honor Book Our Only May Amelia and the contemporary young adult thriller, The Creek, as well as the other books of the Boston Jane trilogy: Boston Jane: An Adventure and Boston Jane: Wilderness Days. She lives with her husband and son and cat in the wilds of Maryland.