Deep Trouble

The Baker Family Saga #4

by Allison Kohn

Alice, Donna and Rose are on Going to California in the middle nineteenth century. They won't be hunting for gold, they have plenty of wealth, but Rose's parents, Joanna and Stephen, have heard California is cultured and sophisticated, with libraries and museums the girls will benefit from exposure to. Ray doesn't want them to go. He doesn't see how it could have healed from the sin-sick place he visited a few years earlier. Joanna and Stephen find out, to their sorrow, that Ray was right. The three young ladies get an education, but it isn't the one planned by their parents. Drugged, kidnapped, left in the desert, and taken to the Unita mountains for a long hard winter give them an education of another kind. All of their fathers, of course, go looking for them and get lost themselves. Alice, in spite of herself, misses Ray, and Ray is frantic. He runs through an Indian war and the desert looking for her. How will they , or will they find their way home? What will they all learn as they go through the valleys of fear and depression? And where are their fathers?

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First published November 4, 2012

About the author

I was born in 1938 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. My grandmother was the first white child to enter the valley and I heard stories about pioneering from the time I was laying in my basenette. That was the beginning of my love of history and telling stories. When I discovered the power of the written word, I used it, not only for writing serious pieces for for expressing my views on politics and religion, but to tell parables - interesting stories to demonstrate helpful truths.
I published devotions on line for about three years and numerous newspaper articles through the years. I also published some of my novels on line a few years ago, but now it is time to get my writing out to a broader public.

Reviews

[Bev Stout · Rating 3 out of 5]

Deep Trouble by Allison Kohn is the fourth book of a series about the Baker family in the 1800's. I believe the book is based on real people, but this is not totally made clear. I enjoyed Alice, an engaging character. Her relationship with Ray and her cousins is sometimes amusing, other times heartfelt.

It is a story filled with people and events that I can tell Kohn cares deeply about. The pace, however, was slowed down by too many characters being introduced, whose relationship and importance to the main characters was not always explained. And while the bibical references were important, I felt fewer of them would have made the story a little less preachy.

The version I read was in PDF format, which should is the best available for getting a good layout. However, there were too many different fonts used throughout the the book, making reading difficult in some instances. Also, the superscripts used to reference certain words were too small and in roman numerals which were barely visable. In a PDF file, these references should have been hyper-linked to the references in the back of the book, so if you click on the word it would take you to the reference. A good editing would have helped.