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Fleeing the Shadows
She blames herself for the bounty onPapa's head.
Book Two in the Dangerous Loyalties series--a historical novel for teens--continues the riveting story of Daughters of the American Revolution patriot Mary Shirley McGuire.
It's late summer in the Alleghany Highlands, 1775. Colonial Virginia has resolved to support the American Revolutionary cause for liberty. The British are determined to retain control of the fur trade and keep frontiersmen fighting Indians instead of joining the Continentals.
Thirteen-year-old Mary Shirley is still recovering from emotional wounds inflicted when she risked her life delivering traitorous dispatches. She trusted the wrong men, and now the family must flee Indian Creek to stay ahead of British Loyalist who seek her papa's life.
But they can't risk being captured by taking the main road to Daniel Boone's trail that leads into Kentucky territory. They must endure the more dangerous and grueling hunter's path that leads to rough frontier forts along the Clinch River.
Passions are ignited, friendships are formed, and shocking lessons are learned.
Papa ignores the warnings to wait for other travelers, causing Mary's anxieties to worsen. Once they cross the Cumberland Gap, they're at the mercy of God and the Chickamauga Cherokee to make it to Fort Boonesborough alive. Frontiersmen tell them the settlement of Fort Boonesborough isn't defendable, and Mary doesn't want to continue. Papa is confident that the Indians are too busy preparing for winter to raid.
A few days from the fort, Mary is feeling hopeful for the future. Then disaster strikes, leaving the family devastated and heartbroken. There is no other choice. Mary must lay aside paralyzing fear and excruciating pain to save her family before time runs out.
Fleeing the Shadows(Dangerous Loyalties Book Two) invites readers to experience traveling the dangerous wilderness trails with Mary and her family through thick wild forests of Southwest Virginia and into Kentucky territory that leads straight into a Native American hornet's nest. Mary just wants to make it Fort Boonesborough and live in peace.
Book Two in the Dangerous Loyalties series--a historical novel for teens--continues the riveting story of Daughters of the American Revolution patriot Mary Shirley McGuire.
It's late summer in the Alleghany Highlands, 1775. Colonial Virginia has resolved to support the American Revolutionary cause for liberty. The British are determined to retain control of the fur trade and keep frontiersmen fighting Indians instead of joining the Continentals.
Thirteen-year-old Mary Shirley is still recovering from emotional wounds inflicted when she risked her life delivering traitorous dispatches. She trusted the wrong men, and now the family must flee Indian Creek to stay ahead of British Loyalist who seek her papa's life.
But they can't risk being captured by taking the main road to Daniel Boone's trail that leads into Kentucky territory. They must endure the more dangerous and grueling hunter's path that leads to rough frontier forts along the Clinch River.
Passions are ignited, friendships are formed, and shocking lessons are learned.
Papa ignores the warnings to wait for other travelers, causing Mary's anxieties to worsen. Once they cross the Cumberland Gap, they're at the mercy of God and the Chickamauga Cherokee to make it to Fort Boonesborough alive. Frontiersmen tell them the settlement of Fort Boonesborough isn't defendable, and Mary doesn't want to continue. Papa is confident that the Indians are too busy preparing for winter to raid.
A few days from the fort, Mary is feeling hopeful for the future. Then disaster strikes, leaving the family devastated and heartbroken. There is no other choice. Mary must lay aside paralyzing fear and excruciating pain to save her family before time runs out.
Fleeing the Shadows(Dangerous Loyalties Book Two) invites readers to experience traveling the dangerous wilderness trails with Mary and her family through thick wild forests of Southwest Virginia and into Kentucky territory that leads straight into a Native American hornet's nest. Mary just wants to make it Fort Boonesborough and live in peace.
212 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 6, 2017
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Phyllis A. Still
6 books21 followers2017 Sarton Women's Book Award winner for YA fiction.
Phyllis A. Still attributes her vivid imagination and love for stories to her adventurous childhood throughout seven states. Her desire to become a writer came into fruition when she discovered the real Mary Shirley hiding in obscure family documents. She never wanted Mary's story to be lost again and wanted to inspire young adults to be strong and courageous even though life can turn upside down in an instant.
Her Dangerous Loyalties series begins at the end of 1774 as Western Virginia settlements struggle to survive war with the Native American tribes and the British army. Readers are transported into adolescent Mary's life as she and her family are drawn into heart-rending events. Mary is challenged and changed forever by the end of 1784.
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Phyllis A. Still attributes her vivid imagination and love for stories to her adventurous childhood throughout seven states. Her desire to become a writer came into fruition when she discovered the real Mary Shirley hiding in obscure family documents. She never wanted Mary's story to be lost again and wanted to inspire young adults to be strong and courageous even though life can turn upside down in an instant.
Her Dangerous Loyalties series begins at the end of 1774 as Western Virginia settlements struggle to survive war with the Native American tribes and the British army. Readers are transported into adolescent Mary's life as she and her family are drawn into heart-rending events. Mary is challenged and changed forever by the end of 1784.
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December 10, 2019
FLEEING THE SHADOWS follows fast in the footsteps of 2016’s Defiance on Indian Creek, which was Book One of the Dangerous Loyalties historical fiction series from Phyllis A. Still. It continues the adolescent years of Mary Shirley, oldest child of the Shirley family that have recently left their home and farm in Western Virginia to travel to Kentucky where her father wants to escape the British Army and lay claim to land in the new territory. To get there, they have to travel alone, by horseback and by foot on a dangerous trail where danger lurks in the shadows: Indians, wild animals and those who want to turn Mary’s father over to the British authorities.
As with Defiance on Indian Creek, Ms. Still has penned a fast-moving, historically accurate account of pioneer life, this time on the trail to a new life that is expected to be more peaceful than their life in Virginia where loyalties were becoming torn between British and American, Natives and settlers, Blacks and Whites. There are other issues that young Mary now has to face: the stirrings of fascinations she feels for the young men she meets (not all of them honorable, she soon discovers), the realities of life inside the forts along the trail where women are discriminated against and justice is swiftly carried out for those that violate the law. All of this is discovered through the eyes of Mary, who is maturing quickly as she helps her pregnant mother and younger siblings endure the rigors of the trail.
Wholly enjoyable, and quite intense and shocking at times (the author herself recommends readers be over the age of thirteen) this is a historical series to take note of and one I definitely want to keep following.
As with Defiance on Indian Creek, Ms. Still has penned a fast-moving, historically accurate account of pioneer life, this time on the trail to a new life that is expected to be more peaceful than their life in Virginia where loyalties were becoming torn between British and American, Natives and settlers, Blacks and Whites. There are other issues that young Mary now has to face: the stirrings of fascinations she feels for the young men she meets (not all of them honorable, she soon discovers), the realities of life inside the forts along the trail where women are discriminated against and justice is swiftly carried out for those that violate the law. All of this is discovered through the eyes of Mary, who is maturing quickly as she helps her pregnant mother and younger siblings endure the rigors of the trail.
Wholly enjoyable, and quite intense and shocking at times (the author herself recommends readers be over the age of thirteen) this is a historical series to take note of and one I definitely want to keep following.
March 1, 2020
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