ASIN: B01B2028RE
Publisher: William Millan
Pages: 420
The courageous and inspirational true story of Susanna, a Virginia belle with a difference! She is beautiful and high-spirited, and likes nothing better than to ride her horse for miles over her father's plantation. But she is a sincere Christian, increasingly troubled in her conscience and her faith by the cruelties of the slave system that supports her family. Papa sells their estate, and the family goes west in a Conestoga wagon, then down the great rivers in a steamboat to Missouri, where he buys a big farm and the old life continues. Susanna has never in her life done chores. Now she is nineteen, ready to be a bride. The rich planter Spotswood Granville offers her a life of luxury, wrung from the sweat of seventy slaves. James Custer is a tall young surveyor who owns a new farm on the Iowa frontier, where wild Indians are the closest neighbors. When she sees his blue eyes blazing ...
