Title: The Secret Path of Destiny
Author: M. B. Tosi
Genre: Historical Romance Fiction.
Publisher: WestBow Press, 2012, a division of Thomas Nelson.
Book Two in The Indian Path Series
ISBNs:
978-1-4497-3349-0 (e-book)978-1-4497-3350-6 (soft cover)
978-1-4497-3351-3 (hard copy)
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Brief Synopsis of The Secret Path of Destiny
The Secret Path of Destiny is Book Two of The Indian Path Series. In The Secret Path of Destiny, a young, disabled, German-American girl, named Isolde, and her destitute mother reach out for a lifeline being offered by a widower in the German town of Fredericksburg, Texas. The year is 1865, and the two travel from New York City through the aftermath of the Civil War. But another war is brewing, this time with Native Americans, and Isolde and her mother are heading right into the heart of Comancheria, the homeland of the Comanche.
It is not the Comanche Isolde fears, but her mother’s new employer, who becomes her stepfather. Isolde realizes he is a cunning man who is not who he pretends to be. As the situation worsens, Isolde is forced to make a life-changing decision to escape; desperate, she seeks refuge with a Comanche Indian, who befriends her at first, but later joins a warring band of Comanche. Her malevolent stepfather pursues her across Texas, turning her life upside down. In the midst of her troubles, Isolde’s faith sustains her, and she unexpectedly finds the love that has always eluded her. Eventually, Isolde accepts the difficult circumstances of her life and realizes that a person’s destiny is often hidden from view because the path is sometimes rocky.
The Sacred Path of TearsTBook one in The Indian Path Series ISBNs:978-1-4497-2167-1 (e-book)978-1-4497-2168-8 (soft cover)978-1-4497-2169-5 (hard cover)
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Brief Synopsis of Book One, The Sacred Path of TearsAvailable on Amazon
The Sacred Path of Tears is a journal written by a young Cheyenne Indian woman, nicknamed Mokee, during the Indian Wars in Kansas in the late 1860s. After Mokee and her companion observe the Sand Creek Massacre, they warn the other Indian camps along the Smoky Hill River. They take cover in a barn near Salina, Kansas, where they are discovered by a widow and her two sons.
Mokee’s companion leaves to join the fight against the white soldiers but hating war, Mokee, with her lighter coloring, gains a safe haven with the widow’s family. She finds a mentor in the well-educated widow and embraces the opportunity to read and write English. As her life unfolds, Mokee is torn between two worlds at war and the two men she loves, one a white settler and the other, her companion who has become Cheyenne Dog Soldier. Though war is her constant shadow, Mokee tries to find the purpose for her life and a path of peace in her war-torn world.
AboutThe Indian Path Series
The Secret Path of Destinyis Book Two of The Indian Path Seriesand about the Comanche. Each book of the series stands independently and focuses on a different Native American tribe during the Indian Wars in the late 1800s. The lives of different fictional characters are woven into the true events of that historical period.
The theme of The Indian Path Series is how to find life’s purpose and a path of peace, love, courage, and faith in times of trouble. As American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
About the Author
M.B. TOSI has been an editor of nonfiction books and a weekly newspaper. She teaches piano and has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in education. Born in Pierre, South Dakota, she has lived in Alexandria, Virginia; Bucks County, Pennsylvania; and Toledo, Ohio. She has three children and three grandchildren.
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