Alone
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Liza had been following the Indian''s trail for two weeks, checking every one of their campsites, but until this morning had not found anything to indicate there was a woman in the group. As she searched every inch where they had camped, she noticed a scrap of cloth no bigger than her thumbnail. She picked it up bringing it up close to her eyes and studied it. It had a thread hanging that was not of the same consistency as the cloth. She rubbed it between her fingers as she contemplated what it might be. The tiny piece of cloth was soft, but the thread was silky, but heavier. Then it dawned on her that it might be a thread from embroidering. Her sister''s nightgown had embroidering at the neck. Grace had done the needlework herself. Excitement filled Liza at this find. She knew the camp was only a couple of days old. She could tell by how the ashes had settled.
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Eighteen-year-old Liza Mclntyre started out ''Alone'' in her quest to find her sixteen-year-old sister, Grace, who had been kidnapped by renegade Indians who had killed her parents. Liza''s father had taught her and Grace survival skills from the time they were children, so she set out afoot with a rifle, two bowie knifes in a knife belt, provisions to last several weeks, and a strong determination she would find her sister or die trying. Along the way she managed to rescue an eight-year-old boy, who had also been kidnapped by another group of Indians. Having to care for and protect Tommy Shuler, slowed up her search for her sister, but help comes when Tommy''s father, William Shuler, searching for his son, catches up with them. They ended up in the Black Hills of South Dakota that covered hundreds of miles of Sioux Territory. It consisted of many Indian reservations. How can she possibly find the group that took her sister among so many? When she finds out from the friendly Lakota Sioux that the ones who killed her parents and kidnapped her sister were the vicious Northern Dakota Sioux, she refuses any further help from William; leaving him and Tommy with the Lakota tribe and strikes off ''alone'' to complete her mission. She told William, "If you die helping me, you leave a son without a father. If I die trying it will not be a loss to anyone."
"Alone" is a book filled with action and adventure. A real page-turner.
About the Author
Alice Marie Yax writes under her maiden name and is an avid reader of almost all genres of books except Science Fiction, but prefers novels that are clean of any profanity. Her interest in writing reflects this preference. She started writing late in life and feels she has to hurry up, so even though this is only her second book to be published, she has written a dozen stories; most of which occur around the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She loves Westerns and what she calls, ''Old timey'' stories. She has been married for forty-two years, but alas, no children, but she lays claim to being an Aunt over two hundred fifty times. Her memory of old time stories her father loved to tell has helped her greatly in her writing, plus a vivid imagination.