Prince In The Wilderness

About the Book

In 1847 Indiana, young Laurent is excited to get back out onto the rivers with Papa for the winter fur trapping season. This year he hopes to prove himself a now fully grown, and responsible man, so he can earn the blessing from the father of Loon, the half-Ojibwe-half-French girl who first captured his heart in childhood. The fur-trade has been waning for the last few years, but Laurent’s family needs a good final season in order to survive, and ultimately begin something new. When a terrible accident renders Papa incapacitated, and turns the Fontaine family’s plans upside-down, Laurent is forced to go it alone on the dangerous river. As he battles loneliness and homesickness he canoes east toward the family camp in Columbus. Just as he approaches his safe destination, he has a sickening encounter with slave hunters that leaves him reeling. Upon finding the evil men in the woods battering a black couple, he learns that their young daughter has gone missing. Laurent wrestles with God until an epiphany convinces him to find the child and take her to freedom, which hinders his fur trapping mission. With no understanding of what he has gotten himself into, he finds himself on the run from the slave hunters with the little girl. Worry and anxiety take over, and he wonders how God could have let so many bad things happen. But just when he is about to give up, God will teach Laurent that He can redeem and restore anything, once a willing person lets Him intercede. Prince in the Wilderness is a survivor tale, and love story, about growing up too fast, and taking on impossible challenges, all the while giving in to the greatest power of all.

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