Sara Bear

by Paul Sharp

240 printed pages.79,000 words (Approx.).This is the first book in the Sara Bear seriesSet in the 1840’s, Sara Bear is the story of a young woman fleeing from the wrath of her violent Indian husband. Desperate to travel far as possible from the Indian Village where she had lived since eight years old, Sara found a horse, escaped from a threat, and rode the horse right into danger.A family, stranded when the front axle on their wagon broke, was under attack from a dozen Indian warriors.After this battle was won, the wounded and dying man asked Sara to help his four children survive this dangerous country. Still trying to escape other threats to her own life, Sara touched by this terrible tragedy, agreed to carry out the dying Father’s wishes.Sara, as protector and provider to the four surviving members of the John Thomas family, began a journey in life fraught with dangers on every hand. Sara soon finds that her life becomes intertwined with her newly adopted family as she uncovers a string of events involving the children's parents, their relatives in Philadelphia, and a pair of foreign assassins. Sara and the children return to the western wilderness new members from Philadelphia where they establish a ranch and begin work on making a new life for themselves. However, the trouble does not end there as hired Comanchero's are still on the lookout for the children and other family members.

191 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 24, 2010