Captive Trail is second in a six-book series about four generations of the Morgan family living, fighting, and thriving amidst a turbulent Texas history spanning from 1845 to 1896. Although a series, each book can be read singularly.
Taabe Waipu has run away from her Comanche village and is fleeing south in Texas on a horse she stole from a dowry left outside her family’s teepee. The horse has an accident and she is left on foot, injured and exhausted. She staggers onto a road near Fort Chadbourne and collapses.
On one of the first runs through Texas, Butterfield Overland Mail Company driver Ned Bright carries two Ursuline nuns returning to their mission station. They come across a woman who is nearly dead from exposure and dehydration and take her to the mission.
With some detective work, Ned discovers Taabe Waipu is Billie Morgan. He plans to unite her with her family, but the Comanche have other ideas, and the two end up defending the mission station.
Through Taabe (Billie) and Ned we learn the true meaning of healing and restoration amid seemingly powerless situations.
My thoughts:
Susan Page Davis is an author whose books I've come to love. From her early days of writing for the Heartsong Presents line to one of her newest series, The Ladies Shooting Club, I've been able to rely on her ability to supply excellent stories to the Christian fiction genre. For those reasons, I was eager to read her newest novel, Captive Trail.
Captive Trail was a bit of a departure from Susan's usual style. There wasn't the spunky heroine or the handsome hero, nor was there the gradual and believable romance that I'm accustomed to reading. However, there was a sweet series of relationships that formed among the characters, and enough danger and fear evident with the local Indian tribes that I kept turning page after page.
I'm looking forward to the other 5 books in The Texas Trail Series by various authors that I have come to enjoy. My rating for Captive Trail is 3 Stars.
**Many thanks to Moody Publishers and CFBA for providing a copy for review.
Southern? No
Sass? No
More thoughts on Susan's previous novels:
The Sheriff's Surrender
The Gunsmith's Gallantry
The Blacksmith's Bravery
I'm getting excited about this whole series. It reminds me of that blog a few years ago at Christmas time where all sorts of authors continued the story wherever the author before them left off. I think it's cool.
ReplyDeleteYou know, that sounds a little familiar, but I can't remember any of the contributors. :o(
ReplyDeleteNo clue. It was good though.
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